"Evan Ross" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Phil Holmes <mail <at> philholmes.net> writes:
Could you provide a scan illustrating this, please?
It's apparently so common a thing that after randomly searching for
madrigals,
the very first one I came up to demonstrates this all over the place. See
measure 2 for example.
http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d5/IMSLP36694-PMLP03369-Morley_-_April_is_in_My_Mistress__Face.pdf
The alignment in that example is incredibly inconsistent - see as an
alternative measure 6, where Mis is left aligned and face is pretty much
centred. The alignment on this example is so variable that I suspect
they've just got it wrong in measure 2. The examples I was able to find all
align as recommended by Stone and implemented by LilyPond.
As Xavier says, if there are specific places where you want to change the
alignment, you can use:
\once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT
which will change the alignment for the following word. However, I pretty
much only ever set vocal music, and I certainly only ever read it and have
never found it distracting that syllables from another voice have different
alignment - I never look at them!
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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad
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