Okay... Having reviewed previous pieces, I see that even lyricmode doesn't get the extenders right for every melisma, but only attaches the lyrics to a single voice and its melismata (just like \lyricsto and \addlyrics). I just didn't have a piece that showed the limitations of this situation so clearly until now.
It appears to me that the only way to get left-alignment and long enough extenders for all melismata regardless of voice is to be constantly using \set associatedVoice (or some abbreviated definition thereof). If there is a better way to do this, I'd love to know about it. Please forgive me if I've missed something utterly obvious. Thank you. Fr. Panteleimon _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user