Re: Adjustments to lyrics alignment

[Gonçalo Nogueira]

2014/1/22 David Kastrup <address@hidden>

Gonçalo Nogueira <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> I was wondering if there is anyway to manually adjust the alignment of
> *single*
> syllables to their notes. Consider the following fragment:
>
> \relative c'' {
>   \autoBeamOff
>   c8. a16 f4
> } \addlyrics {
>   le -- bens -- satt
> }

> Look at that ugly spacing between the A and the F. Is there a way to
> allow the syllable "bens" to align more to the left and the "satt"
> more to the right so that the spacing between a sixteenth note and a
> quarter note can be more natural?

You can try the following:



Note that #LEFT is the same as #-1 and #RIGHT the same as #1 and you can
also use any value in between to get more subtle results.  Or even
beyond the range of -1..1 in order to get less subtle results.

I apologize for the necessity of using \markup in connection with \tweak
here.  We haven't yet found an amicable compromise avoiding this
nuisance.

--
David Kastru

p

That's great. Thank you!

I was about to try  giving lyrics a slightly different rhythm

than the melody by specifying the rhythm manually for all lyrics. What do you think

of that approach?