Re: Spacing with \new Lyrics and a full measure rest.

[Simon Albrecht]

On 01.03.2016 11:04, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> This is an example from a vocal score for a musical. What is the best
> way of ensuring that the barline and subsequent measure respects the
> length of the spoken text rather than the full bar rest?

Add a Bar_engraver to the Lyrics context. The BarLine will be made very 
small, so it’s invisible, but the LyricTexts still have to avoid it:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.18.2"

\score {
  <<
    \new Voice = "Darcy" \relative c' {
      \key es \major \time 3/2 \clef treble
      <<
    {
      R1.^\fermataMarkup %170
    }
    \new Lyrics \with {
      \consists "Bar_engraver"
      \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
      \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
    }
    {
      \lyricmode {
        \markup {
          \column {
        \line {
          \fontsize #1 \upright \smallCaps Esther: "Oh. It's just what I've
always wanted!"
        }
          }
        }8*12
      }
    }
      >>
      \override NoteHead.style = #'cross
      bes'8^\markup \fontsize #1 \smallCaps Chorus r r4 r1\bar "|." %171

    }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Darcy" {
      \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #1.0
      \set lyricMelismaAlignment = #CENTER
      jah!
    }
  >>
}
\layout {
  \context {
    \Lyrics
    \override BarLine.bar-extent = #'(-0.0001 . 0.0001)
  }
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

HTH, Simon