Thanks David & Aaron, that works nicely. The thing I was missing was the need to encompass the entire syllable (the thing between "--" delimiters) within the markup.
-- Graham > On 2 Jul 2019, at 20:07, Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote: > > On 2019-07-02 9:19 am, Graham King wrote: >> Where two syllables are set to the same note, is there a way to apply >> formatting to the second? I hope I've not missed something obvious in >> the NR or the Snippets Repository. >> In the following example, "eleison" is editorial and should be >> italicised. The upper line of lyrics has the correct spacing but not >> the desired italics: >> \version "2.19.82" >> ital = \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic >> italx = \revert LyricText.font-shape >> { c'1 c' d' c' } >> \addlyrics { ky -- rie_e -- lei -- son } >> \addlyrics { ky -- rie_ \ital e -- lei -- son \italx } > > You could manually construct the syllable with custom markup: > > %%%% > \version "2.19.82" > > ital = \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic > italx = \revert LyricText.font-shape > > { c'1 c' d' c' } > \addlyrics { ky -- rie_e -- lei -- son } > % \addlyrics { ky -- rie_ \ital e -- lei -- son \italx } > \addlyrics { ky -- \markup { rie \italic e } -- \ital lei -- son \italx } > %%%% > > > -- Aaron Hill > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user