Re: How can I align text to notes with bars?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-10-27 11:20 am, Markus Grunwald wrote:
> I'm confused (again...). I would expect that in the followig
> snippet, each note gets one syllable:
>
> \version "2.20.0"
> <<
>  \relative c' {
>    \autoBeamOff
>    r8 f f[ b] b[ c c d] |
>  }
>  \addlyrics {
>    Der letz-te Sum-mer war sehr |
>  }
> > >
>
> But instead, I get what you can see in the attachment...
> What am I doing wrong?

Two things.

1) Manual beams will indicate melismata, causing one LyricText to cover 
multiple notes.  This default behavior can be disabled.

2) LilyPond uses a double hyphen "--" to indicate a centered LyricHyphen 
between two LyricTexts.  Saying "letz-te" counts as a single LyricText.


%%%%
\version "2.20.0"

\relative c' {
  \autoBeamOff
  \set melismaBusyProperties = #'()
  r8 f f[ b] b[ c c d] |
}
\addlyrics {
  Der letz -- te Sum -- mer war sehr |
}
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill