Re: How do I expand lyrics...

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 18.03.2014 20:17, schrieb Kevin Tough:
> Hey Thanks,
>
> when I first read the manual I thought Lilypond's symbol to spread or
> center a lyric between two note values was the double underscore. No
> matter how I placed or spaced it this naturally didn't work. Now I see
> from playing with your example that the slur does do the job in this
> case. In the case of a slur or melisma I take it that the lyric starts
> at the first note value. Is there any other simple way to center a lyric
> between two note values?
There are two other methods:
> f4 f f f  | f  e  e  e |e  d  d  e | d2\melisma g2\melismaEnd | \break
and
> Oh, what fun it | is to ride in_a | one horse o -- pen | sleigh. __ _ |
(the single underscore is like an empty syllable to a note)
By the way, in all of these methods the lyrics syllable is not centered 
on the entire melisma, but instead left-aligned on the first note of the 
melisma (as opposed to centering the syllables on the notes if there 
isn’t a melisma).

Best regards and happy christmas preparation,
Simon