Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

[Evan Ross]

Keith OHara <k-ohara5a5a <at> oco.net> writes:
> 
> 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.
> 

I tried appending the following code to the end of the score block, but it
did not change the behaviour of the lyrics around melismata.

\layout {
 \context { 
  \Lyrics 
  \set lyricMelismaAlignment = #CENTER 
  }
 }

Am I putting this in the wrong place?