Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

[Phil Holmes]

"Evan Ross" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> Phil Holmes <mail <at> philholmes.net> writes:
>
> > Could you provide a scan illustrating this, please?
>
>
> It's apparently so common a thing that after randomly searching for 
> madrigals,
> the very first one I came up to demonstrates this all over the place. See
> measure 2 for example.
>
> http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d5/IMSLP36694-PMLP03369-Morley_-_April_is_in_My_Mistress__Face.pdf

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!

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad