Maury Merkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have found that my problem with lining up the lyrics is always in the > case of tied notes. So that if I have a word "ride" which is to be sung > on a g-sharp eighth note and then held for an additional half note (in ly > notation: | b8 gis' ~ gis2 | ) the lyric is never made to hold for the > duration but, rather, the word "long" is properly shown as sung on the b > eighth note and "ride" is properly shown as sung on the g-sharp eighth > note but then the next word is shown as sung on the g-sharp half note.
That's what automaticMelismata is for: \score { \addlyrics \context Staff \notes \relative c '' { \property Staff.automaticMelismata = ##t b8 gis' ~ gis2 c } \context Lyrics \lyrics { word ride long } } > UGH!!! It's in the manual, too http://lilypond.org/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Printing-lyrics.html -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user