Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

[Trevor Daniels]

Keith OHara wrote Monday, February 07, 2011 7:02 AM


> Evan Ross <evan.simon.ross <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Is there no way whatsoever to force a center alignment to the 
> > first note of
> > a multi-note syllable?
>
> I hesitate to mention it, but, there is a setting mentioned in the 
> Internals
> Reference, under Lyric_engraver, that might do what you ask
> \set lyricMelismaAlignment = #CENTER
>
> This setting is not in the main documentation or the test suite, 
> so it is safer
> to follow Trevor's later suggestion based on the current manual.

Perhaps this should be documented.  Apart from noting
that it must be set in the Lyrics context it seems
straightforward to use.  Does anyone know of any
difficulty with it?

Trevor