Russ Ross wrote:
I'm using Lilypond 2.0.1 and having trouble getting lyrics to line up properly. They are finding the right notes, but they tend to be a bit off to the left or right. They end up overlapping bar lines and melisma lines and they are a bit hard to follow in some places. Is this a setup error of some kind? I'm using default options everywhere on a Mandrake 9.2 setup. It's pretty consistent, so doing manual overrides seems overkill (it would have to happen on every lyric).
Please send a small example file that illustrates the problems.
Also, please take a look at the examples
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyric-align.ly
and http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyrics-bar.ly to see if they give answer to some of your questions.
Two other lyrics questions:
1. I have some syllables that span multiple measures and even multiple lines. With a melisma it works fine, but with a "--" it only puts one dash in (as opposed to a dashed line which would seem to be better). When the syllable spans an entire line, lilypond doesn't put anything on that line (not even a single dash) and pulls the next staff up as though there were no lyrics there. Is there a way to fix this?
There's no automatic solution (see http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-10/msg00164.html)
but you could always do it with some manual work, see
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2002-05/msg00242.html
2. When I have a melisma that ends at a rest, I get a warning. I can get around it by putting an empty lyric ("") on the rest but then I get another warning about having a lyric with no note. I can also cut the melisma a bit short and have an empty lyric on the last part of the note, but this seems a bit clumsy. Is there a better way of doing this?
/Mats
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