Hi, Molly!
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 7:32 PM Molly Preston <[email protected]>
wrote:
> What is the best way to make more room horizontally for lyrics? I have two
> syllable words that look like they are one syllable words (ie no hyphen
> visible) , and I am not sure the best way to space them or if there is some
> special property I don't understand?
>
> -Molly
>
Since I had the same issue, I did a bunch of testing and settled on a suite
of global overrides for lyrics in my scores. I've found these to be very
helpful in my own cases. Of course, if you don't want to use one or more of
these, feel free to not use them! These were tuned with my eye against
other scores that I thought looked very nice. Because they force some space
in between words and around hyphens, your music will get spread out a
little, so just be aware of that.
\layout {
\context Lyrics {
\override LyricHyphen.padding = #0.15
\override LyricHyphen.length = #0.6
\override LyricHyphen.minimum-length = #0.66
\override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #1
\override LyricHyphen.thickness = 2.0
\override LyricHyphen.dash-period = 8.0
\override LyricExtender.minimum-length = #0
\override LyricExtender.right-padding = #0.5
\override LyricSpace.minimum-distance = #1
}
}
This can be put inside or outside the \score block, depending on where you
want them to influence.
HTH,
Abraham
