Re: Word alignment

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-01-18 1:27 pm, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Is it possible in lilypond to have the words of the lyrics aligned so
> the start of the word is under the note or group, rather than
> centered?
>
> I didn't see anything in 'Aligning lyrics to a melody'. The discussion
> at
> http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Left-align-first-word-of-lyrics-td146080.html
> is interesting, but the OP wanted multi-line lyrics left-aligned to
> themselves, but still centered under the note (and only for the first
> word). What I'm looking for is both notes and words to be left-aligned
> always.

You should only need to change LyricText.self-alignment-X.  Doing it 
within a \layout block makes it easy to affect all lyrics contexts:

%%%%
\version "2.18.2"

\layout {
  \context { \Lyrics
    \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
  }
}

{ b'4 b' b' b' }
\addlyrics { one two three four }
\addlyrics { five six seven eight }
%%%%

-- Aaron Hill