Hi Trevor,
> I think I might treat the "m" as a separate lyric event, i.e. as a separate
> syllable, like this:
Well, that's one way of doing it…
I don't like it, though: it's not the convention (cf. Gould, bottom of pg.
453), nor is it particularly intuitive for a singer.
That being said, you *did* give me a hint which inspired the attached modified
snippet, which works (pretty well!) by tweaking the LyricHyphen so that it
mimics an extender. Unfortunately, it still requires some manual input with
trial-and-error, for the LyricHyphen length — once the current commission
pressure is off, I'll see what I can do about somehow making it automagic.
Thanks!
Kieren.
%%% SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.19.64"
\layout {
ragged-right = ##f
}
melUnbusy = \once \set melismaBusyProperties = #'()
hyphext = {
\once \override LyricHyphen.length = #25
\once \override LyricHyphen.thickness = #0.8
\once \override LyricHyphen.Y-offset = #-0.45
\once \override LyricHyphen.extra-offset = #'(0.375 . 0)
}
\score {
<<
\new Staff
\new Voice {
c''1 ~
\melUnbusy c''1 ~
c''1
}
\addlyrics { \lyricmode { \hyphext room -- \tweak whiteout #2 (m) __ } }
>>
}
%%% SNIPPET ENDS
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