Daer Mats, thank you very much for the suggestion. However, on my setup, your sollution does not seem to work. I still use Lilypond 2.12.1 and I simply copied your code without any change to a file and compiled with Lilypond. The result is shown on the image - the syllables are still "hard"-centered without the respect to the vowels.
\layout{ \context{ \Lyrics % Make sure that the alignment point of the syllable is aligned with the note head: \override LyricText #'X-offset = #ly:self-alignment-interface::centered-on-x-parent } } \relative c'{ c d e f } \addlyrics { % Split the syllable into two halves to set the alignment point: \markup {\combine \right-align Dddda \left-align d } \markup {\combine \right-align da \left-align dddddd } \markup {\combine \right-align Dda \left-align dd } \markup { \right-align Dddda } } The suggestion of Kieren works perfectly, but it is very impractical having to set each syllable centering point manually. I am preparing an edition of 16th century chant, which should have in the course of 2 years about 800 pages of music and in that moment it becomes impossible to set everything by hand. I am looking forward to the solution which another brave person is thinking of and I hope that a solution to his Scheme coding problem may be found so that his activity is brought to the successfull end: http://www.nabble.com/Scheme-help-for-lyric-align-on-vowel-td21685675.html -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyrics---align-first-vowel-of-a-syllable-under-the-notehead-tp21600612p21702574.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user