Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2457 in lilypond: Shouldn't simultaneous syllables be aligned across voices?

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        Summary: Shouldn't simultaneous syllables be aligned across voices?

Comment #1 on issue 2457 by address@hidden: Shouldn't simultaneous  
syllables be aligned across voices?
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2457

Gould again, page 439: "Some editions place all syllables consistently to  
the left of the note, but, in general, this is not helpful."

She (and I) say that it might look better, but I don't believe it would be  
in any way helpful to a singer.  Left aligned == melisma to me, and if it's  
not, I'm gonna get confused.  When I'm checking what other voices are  
singing, I look for their notes, not their words - in early songs, the  
words go on for so long you can't check for them!

I could accept cheating the word to the right a bit, but not left aligned.