Hello Mark!
> When typesetting a melisma, LilyPond always left-aligns the syllable > with the first note. Is there a global way to center-align it > instead, without having to manually override LyricText.X-offset > every time? Searching in the 'lilypond-user' mailing list at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ using the keywords 'melisma alignment' eventually brought me to this thread https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-11/msg00846.html which mentions the `lyricMelismaAlignment` property. In LilyPond's 'snippets' documentation file this is covered with the snippet “Aligning syllables with melisma”, also available as https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Aligning_syllables_with_melisma Werner
