I saw the question posted earlier re lyrics alignment, but I can't quite tell whether it adresses my problem, so sorry if I'm being repeticious.
I have Lyrics in between two staves in a StaffGroup. This way bar lines go all across from the top staff to the bottom one. I'm using \addlyrics. I am having a problem with left side of multiletter syllables at the beginnings of measures crossing the bar line: | | s|yl - la - b|le | | I'm guessing lilypond tries to center the syllable on the first note without much regard for the bar lines. This little imperfection is driving me nuts. I spent a lot of time trying to find a way to insert some space at the beginning of a measure to shift the first note to the right a little bit without any luck. The only way to deal with this so far that I've been able to figure out is to wrap the offending syllables in: \property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'extra-offset = #'(4 . 0) \property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'extra-extent-X = #'(0 . 4) syl -- \property Lyrics . LyricText \revert #'extra-offset \property Lyrics . LyricText \revert #'extra-extent-X la -- \property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'extra-offset = #'(4 . 0) \property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'extra-extent-X = #'(0 . 4) ble \property Lyrics . LyricText \revert #'extra-offset \property Lyrics . LyricText \revert #'extra-extent-X This will shift the sillable to the right by 4 points (the number of points may vary) Obviously this makes the lyrics very ugly... Am I missing something? Does 1.4.9 have a feature to deal with this and should I upgrade? Any advice will be appreciated. G. _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
