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Automatically adjusting lyric placement for natural note spacing

…by lyrics. By default, LilyPond always puts a lyric word exactly centered under the note it attaches to. When there is a long lyric word, LilyPond reserves space between notes so that …

…by lyrics. % By default, LilyPond always puts a lyric word exactly centered under % the note it attaches … …its ideal position, at the %% expense of other lyric syllables nearby. Try outcommenting this %% override to see … …to exceptionally reserve space between the %% two following lyric words (in spite of the snippet turning this …

…markup to part of a syllable connected with lyric ties (~)

…way to handle cases where italic and plain lyric text fall on the same syllable, and a lyric tie (~) is desired.

…markup to part of a syllable connected with lyric ties (~) \layout { \context { \Score % Increase spacing to make …

lyric combine

With the \lyricsto mechanism, individual lyric lines can be associated with one melody line. For each lyric line, they can be tuned whether to follow …

Repeat lyric extender

A lyric extender which extends into several \alternative blocks can …

…or a backslash at the beginning of a lyric syllable, but placing either of those characters in … …result). The perfect solution is to start the lyric syllable with \n - at least, it seems …

…unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=644 % For each lyric element that begins with '!', change it to begin …

Lyric text can be used to display symbols for …

…7" "9>" "" "" "" ")" \fExtend " " % call this function BEFORE the lyric event \markup \fSymbol "Sp" "" "" "9" "" "" "" "" "" \startTextSpan % call \startTextSpan AFTER the lyric event \markup \fSymbol "" "" "" "8" "" "" "" "" "" \stopTextSpan \markup \fSymbol "S" "" "" "…

Skips in lyric mode

Skips in lyric mode (2)

Dashed slurs indicating optional slurs between lyric lines

…is to alternate the display properties of the lyric lines. This snippet demonstrates how to use such …

…it/LSR/Item?id=641 %% Implement an alternate lyric context \layout { \context { \Lyrics \name AltLyrics \alias Lyrics \…