Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

[Evan Ross]

Phil Holmes <mail <at> philholmes.net> writes:
> 
> The alignment in that example is incredibly inconsistent - see as an 
> alternative measure 6, where Mis is left aligned and face is pretty much 
> centred.  The alignment on this example is so variable that I suspect 
> they've just got it wrong in measure 2.  The examples I was able to find all 
> align as recommended by Stone and implemented by LilyPond.
> 
> As Xavier says, if there are specific places where you want to change the 
> alignment, you can use:
> 
> \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT
> 
> which will change the alignment for the following word.  However, I pretty 
> much only ever set vocal music, and I certainly only ever read it and have 
> never found it distracting that syllables from another voice have different 
> alignment - I never look at them!
> 

Well, barring the example being inconsistent, the point of my posting it is
to show what I want to see, not what I consider an example of brilliantly
and perfectly engraved music! :P 

While I would prefer them to all be centered, this override will at least
make them uniform... Thanks! I still wonder if there's a way to do it how
I envisioned it originally...