I am using the \addlyrics feature to have lily align the text to the music. There are two things I don't know how to do: 1) Suppose, in 6/4, I have d2. ~ d2 r4 | r2. c2. |. If I have a word, say, "X" at "d2.", and I want a word extension (the "__" after X) that only extends up to and including d2. How do I do that? Currently, lily would extend the line to right before "c2." The problem magnifies when I have several empty bars. The line would go across those bars. 2) No word extension is created when I have something like "g2. ~ g2 |" at the end of a piece (with \partial 4). I think this is because lily cannot find the next note/word pair for the word extension to end. I just wonder if is it possible to modify lily such that "__" would accept a duration. By default, if there is no duration after it, then it would look for the next note/word pair. If there is a duration, then the line would only extend that many beats. Also, is it possible to change/add the behaviour of "--" so that there would be a dashed line between two syllables as opposed to just a dash in between. The dashed line would be more intuitive when the melissma is long. Desmond Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
