Re: Vertically centering a song text.

[Simon Albrecht]

On 03.12.2015 07:32, David Kastrup wrote:
> tisimst<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > >\skip in the Lyrics context is necessary for skipping beats without
> > >creating a melisma (which can be manually created with a single underscore
> > >for each beat in the melisma). I'm not sure why it's insensitive to the
> > >number after it. I have wondered the same thing, but that's the way it
> > >works at the moment.
> Because the whole point of \addlyrics/\lyricsto is to ignore durations
> and instead take items one-by-one irrespective of their length?

One _might_ do

%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.19.32"

% modified from ly/music-functions-init.ly
skip =
#(define-music-function (dur) ((ly:duration? (ly:make-duration 2)))
  (_i "Skip forward by @var{dur}.")
  (make-music 'SkipMusic
              'duration dur))

<<
  { 4 2 4 }
  \addlyrics { test \skip \default test }
>>
%%%%%%%%%%%

but it doesn’t make much of a difference. (It would if \skip\default 
would inherit a duration just like a note with implicit duration; is 
that possible via make-music?)

Yours, Simon