On 21.07.2016 12:16, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
So I guess that what you wrote me is because "Tra" would normally be
centred on the musical note, but now that a hyphen is considered to be
part of it, it gets wider, so the function shifts the note relative to
lyrics for 0.4 units to the left to compensate.
That’s not quite how it works. self-alignment-X sets the reference point
for alignment. 0 means the center of the grob’s visible extent, -1 left
edge, 1 right edge, and you can choose any other value which will be
placed on that scale.
Another problem are cases which I would intuitively write
tra -- _ -- la
where the first syllable "tra" would be sung across two pitches.
Simple: just omit the second hyphen. Hyphens will be extended to span the
whole distance until the next actual syllable comes. Same with extenders.
Great, thank you.
Could this be added to documentation, for example somewhere like
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/aligning-lyrics-to-a-melody
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics
It really took me quite some time to figure out how to:
- hyphenate world (my initial attempt was a single '-' and perhaps
even without spaces)
- create an extended underline
- skip notes (my initial attempt was an empty string: "")
- create a "syllable" that contains space
- the two problems mentioned above
Most of these are in fact discussed in the LM section, e.g. stating ‘As
an alternative to using slurs, the melismata may be indicated in just
the lyrics by using an underscore |_| for each note that should be
included in the melisma’.
HTH, Simon
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