Thank you, Karl.
Here is a working example (vMINIMAL1). It displays everything that I want,
*except* the “square fermatas” on “Lord” and “Name.”
\version "2.24.4"
soprano = \relative c'' { c1 b4 a g2 }
verse = \lyricmode {
\once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
"Not unto us, ~O Lord, ~not unto us, // but unto thý Name"
give the praise;
}
\score {
\new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff << \new Voice = "soprano" { \voiceOne \soprano } >>
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "soprano" \verse
>>
}
I replaced the verse with the following code (based on your code) to create
vMINIMAL2.
verse = \lyricmode {
\once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
\markup { \concat {
"Not unto us, ~O "
\raise #3 \center-column { \musicglyph #"scripts.ulongfermata" Lord }
", ~not unto us, // but unto thý "
\raise #3 \center-column { \musicglyph #"scripts.ulongfermata" Name }
}}
give the praise;
}
Version 2 has the long fermatas over “Lord” and “Name” as desired, but
there are two issues:
a) The tildes (~) no longer function to generate lyric ties.
b) The long fermatas display too high on the page (too close to the bottom
line of the staff). The fermatas should be closer to “Lord” and “Name,”
respectively, but if I change \raise #3 to use a lower integer value, then
the lyric shifts out of vertical alignment with the words on either side of
it.
Do you know how I might fix these issues?
Thank you again.
Gabriel
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 at 19:23, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gabriel:
> ...
> > I want to add a “long fermata” on the word “Lord” to indicate to singers
> a
> > lengthening of that word. The long fermata should be paired with the
> lyric:
> > printed directly above the line of text and centered over “Lord.”
> ...
>
> Next time, it be apreciated if you could give a complete minimal working
> example, just lacking the thing you want.
>
> Here is what I scribbled together.
>
> //////////////
> \version "2.25.1"
>
> voiceVerse = \context Voice = voiceVerse { \time 2/1 c'\breve }
> verse = \lyricmode {
> \once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
> \markup { \concat {
> "Not unto us, O "
> \raise #3 \center-column { \musicglyph #"scripts.ulongfermata" Lord }
> ", not unto us, // but"
> }}
> }
>
> \new ChoirStaff <<
> \new Staff { \voiceVerse }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto voiceVerse \verse
> >>
> //////////////
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
>
>
>
>
