Hi David, > IIRC, that snippet originally had a different purpose than it does now; I > think it began as a way to move each lyric syllable so that its first vowel > is centered on the notehead. For a contrived example, it would move the > syllable "Shhhhhhhow!" so that the o is centered under the note head, and > "nexxxxxxxxxxxt" so that the e is centered. > > Am I simply wrong, and this snippet never acted that way?
I believe you are conflating two functions/snippets… This one (which I’ve used extensively) is intended to centre the “real part of the lyric” (i.e., without punctuation, etc.). > If I'm not wrong, is there a way in version 2.24 or 2.25 to get the > center-on-vowel behavior that I thought was the purpose of this snippet? (I > don't want it as a one-time tweak, but to realign all the lyrics in the > score.) A reasonably web search will return helpful items. :) <https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/131448/lilypond-lyrics-alignment-align-to-syllable-vowel-as-found-in-gregorian-sheet/131828#131828> Cheers, Kieren.
