I learned something new and useful for my engravings today! Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> In LilyPond's 'snippets' documentation file this is covered with the > snippet “Aligning syllables with melisma”, also available as > https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Aligning_syllables_with_melisma Here’s an alternative approach. Ever since Jedi Master Kieren MacMillan created code to align notes to vowels within lyrics <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2026-01/msg00339.html>, I’ve been using functions based on that code many times in my engraving files. Mark, my coding of your example includes this: %%% cfv = \once \override LyricText.X-offset = #center-on-first-vowel % see Kieren’s work cvs = \once \override LyricText.X-offset = #center-between-vowels % see Kieren’s work \relative c'' { \key ef \major \time 3/4 g8.( f16) ef2 } \addlyrics { \cfv Lead __ me, } %%% I don’t need to use \set lyricMelismaAlignment, and the output is beautiful! Screenshot: [image: image.png]
