Re: Lyrics formatting issue

[Brian Barker]

At 23:53 23/02/2014 -0500, Antara-Prabhat Kalajian wrote:
> I am having trouble with the spacing of the lyrics on this score. 
> The straight words (Bengali language) are: Ajanar maha parichoy But 
> perhaps because of the bar lines, the syllables are being spaced 
> very far apart, so that the words are no longer recognizable (in 
> most instances). As you can see, I've manually inserted a bar and 
> break of my own. Perhaps my method could be improved upon, but this 
> makes the typeset score appear the way I want.
>
> Thank you for any suggestions!
>
> \version "2.18.0"
> \include "english.ly"
>
> melody =
>         \relative bf' {
>         \key df \major
>
> gf'8 [ff] ef df ef2 c8 df ef2. df8 c bf2. \bar "" \break
> gf8 [af] bf c ~ c1 ef,8 [f!] bf af gf1 }
>
> text = \lyricmode {
> A - ja - nar ma - - -ha __ _ _
> pa - - - -ri - - - choy }
>
> \score{
>   <<
>     \new Voice = "one" {
>       \melody
>     }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" \text
>   >>
>   \layout { } }

Your first problem is that your semibreve C in bar four should 
actually be two tied minims - so that the second minim can appear in 
its proper place in bar five.  If you write "c2 ~ c" in place of "c1" 
and remove the explicit system break, you will get something closer 
to what I'd expect.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker