Re: reciting text over line breaks

[Benjamin Bloomfield]

Yes, but I want to allow line breaks in the middle of those breves if it makes sense for line breaks to occur there.  This is actually the way I had been doing it, but it is a tedious process of trial and error to figure out that, e.g., the line should break after "and" in "always and everywhere", and I'd really like to find a way to make this automatic.

Thanks,

Benjamin Bloomfield

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Michael Gerdau <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Benjamin,

assuming you have your music in a varible called e.g. \music you simply
put your verses like shown below and combine them as with any other
score. That should give you the desired result.

verse = \lyricmode {
  It \once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT "is truly right
and just,"
  \once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT "our duty and"
  our sal -- va -- tion,
  a -- \once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT "ways and"
  \once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT "everywhere to"
  give you thanks,
  Lord, \once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT "holy Father,
almighty and e" -- ver -- last -- ing
}

HTH,
Michael
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