Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

[Simon Albrecht]

David,

On 26.11.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote:
> 1) If there's a lyric extender on a lyric which is being attached to a
> non-melisma note, ignore it. This would often save having four sets
> of SATB lyrics differing only in each ones placement of extenders.

This is issue 4509 <http://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4509/>.

> 2) Given one set of lyrics and two or more voices of notes to attach
> them to, left-align the lyric and don't ignore the extender (as in (1)
> above) whenever any of the notes for that lyric has a melisma, and
> extend the extender to the last melisma moment in any of the voices.

That would be a related feature request, to write extenders for (long) 
single notes (again, with a threshold). To be turned on/off by a boolean 
property, I think.

Yours, Simon