Re: Change color of Lyrics?

[JxStarks]

Thank you! I thought I had tried that, but my syntax was incorrect.

Jerry

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:33 AM Lukas-Fabian Moser <lfm@gmx.de> wrote:

Hi Jerry,

> Is there a way to change the color of Lyrics? The documentation tells how to change the color of almost everything except Lyrics. I have a 5-verse song that I want to change the color on verse 3 (to help singers keep their place). How is this done?

Probably easiest way is to issue

\override LyricText.color = #red

This may be done inside the lyrics themselves, or in a \with block:

\new Lyrics \with { \override LyricText.color = #red } ......

or

\addlyrics \with { \override LyricText.color = #red } .......

in a recent LilyPond version, you may even write = red instead of = #red.

Note that lyrics are made up not only of LyricText grobs, but also of
LyricHyphen's, LyricExtender's etc., whose color has to be overriden
separately as far as I know.

Lukas