All,

Is there a way to tell LilyPond to try to space lyrics evenly, as opposed
to spacing notes roughly proportionally? I'm working with an SATB hymn
sheet where there are dotted half notes and quarter notes and eighth notes
all together, and the normal spacing engine that gives more space to longer
notes is causing the lyrics to look badly spaced, particularly on less
dense lines (I manual line break to keep lyrical phrases on one line). see
example1.jpg, attached.

I figured out that I could get fairly even lyrical spacing (or rather,
fairly even note spacing), by setting the shortest note duration
arbitrarily small, as in:

\override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1/128)

However, the problem is that it makes the space between the bar line and
the following note rather small and the space between the bar line and the
preceding note larger, as in example2.jpg.

Is there a compromise? A way to get the notes to space evenly regardless of
duration, but still have the notes appear centered between the bars?

Thanks,
Carl

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