Hello,
I seem to have some fundamental misunderstanding about how the __
extender is to be used in lyrics. It seems that under some conditions
it doesn't behave as I would expect but I may be doing it wrong.
Given the following example, what am I doing wrong? It works fine for
stanza 3 as I would expect, but for stanzas 1 and 2 it seems that what
I'm doing causes the extender to go beyond where I would expect it.
It there any better way than what was done in stanza 4 because the fake
extender never seems to have the correct length---it's either too short
or too long? Perhaps something could be done differently with the
musical expression?
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\version "2.22.2"
\paper {
#(set-paper-size "letter")
}
\score {
<<
\new ChoirStaff {
<<
\new Staff {
<<
\time 12/8
\new Voice = "voice" {
\relative c'' {
a8 b c r4. r a8 b c
d,( e4~) e4. r4 \parenthesize f8 g g a
g2. r
}
}
>>
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" {
\set stanza = "1. " Sing -- ing o sing -- ing a |
song, __ _ sing -- ing a
song.
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" {
\set stanza = "2. " Some -- one sang. They sang a
song, __ \skip 1 a -- bout no --
thing.
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" {
\set stanza = "3. " Sang a song? Who sang a |
song? __ I sang a long
song.
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "voice" {
\set stanza = "4. " Here a song. The song is |
"gone,_" _ I can -- not
sing.
}
>>
}
>>
}
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Thanks,
Andy
