Please, look at the last note of the piece: the last syllable of the following piece ("-mme") is overlapping with the melisma preceding it. How to instruct Lilypond to make some more room for the syllable to shift it away from the foregoing ending melisma? I tried the "Spacing lyrics" from the Documentation but it is not helpful since the LyricSpace #'minimum-distance affects only the space between words and not between the syllables of the same word. For this reason, I removed the minimum-distance line from the layout. Also, I do not think it is Lyric spacing (or Lyrics padding) problem, rather, it is the problem of music spacing: the Lilypond should be aware of the fact that there is longer syllable under the given notehead. The notehead should be "padded" from both sides to make the whole syllable to fit so that the syllable does not extend under the adjacent noteheads.
\version "2.12.1" \paper { #(set-paper-size "b5") line-width = 14.6\cm indent = 0.0 ragged-right = ##t ragged-last = ##t } notyOKriste = \relative c' {\time 12/8 a'4 c8 a4 g8 f4 e8 f4. c'4 d8 f4 e8 d4 bes8 c4 c8 d4 c8 a4 d,8 f16[ \melisma e d8 c] \melismaEnd d4. \bar "||" } oKriste = \lyricmode { Ó Kri -- ste do -- bro -- ti -- vý, na nás vel -- mi na -- las -- ka -- vý, čímť se o -- pla -- tí -- mme? } \score { << \new Voice = "cantus" { \notyOKriste } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "cantus" { \oKriste } >> \layout { \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } \context { \Lyrics \consists "Separating_line_group_engraver" %\override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #3.0 } } } http://www.nabble.com/file/p21665565/JistK_10_SpirituSelfContained.pdf JistK_10_SpirituSelfContained.pdf -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyrics-spacing-problem---overlapping-syllables-tp21665565p21665565.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user