Re: How do I expand lyrics...

[Kevin Tough]

Hey Thanks,

when I first read the manual I thought Lilypond's symbol to spread or
center a lyric between two note values was the double underscore. No
matter how I placed or spaced it this naturally didn't work. Now I see
from playing with your example that the slur does do the job in this
case. In the case of a slur or melisma I take it that the lyric starts
at the first note value. Is there any other simple way to center a lyric
between two note values?

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 18:25 +0100, Fredrik Wallberg wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> if you want one syllable to be sung on more than one note, add a slur across 
> the
> notes to create a melisma.
> This is standard lyrics notation and Lilypond will behave as you would expect.
> And if you *really* want that extender line after "sleigh", you should
> use two underscores, not three.
> 
> Relevant lines:
> 
> add slur:
>     f4 f f f  | f  e  e  e |e  d  d  e | d2( g2 ) | \break
> 
> extender line:
>    Oh, what fun it | is to ride in_a | one horse o -- pen | sleigh. __ |
> 
> / Fredrik
> 
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