I should have tried that again; but I've tried it in the past and it hasn't seemed to work. There must be some other subtlety involved; scores converted from Music XML use \skip1 for melismas... I guess I haven't fully internalised the various options for lyric placement.
Thanks, Paul From: Michael Werner <reznae...@gmail.com> To: Paul Hodges <p...@cassland.org> Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Sent: 04/12/2023 9:10 Subject: Re: Centering a word before a gap in the lyrics Hi Paul, On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 3:52 AM Paul Hodges <p...@cassland.org> wrote: In the middle lyric, the first word is justified because the following skip (_ in this case) defines a melisma. But I actually simply want there to be no immediately following word - this arises with multiple verses and alternatives in the repeat structure, for example. I thought a quoted space would count as a word, but no... In the end I have done it above by a rather unnatural circumlocution, but is there a more natural solution which I've missed? Sure. Just use a skip. Like so:
