Responding to my own post, because I figured it out, and I hate it when
I search mail archives only to find a question sans answer:
Quoth Don Blaheta:
I'm having a hard time getting LilyPond to do just what I want here.
... I have a song whose rhythm varies slightly to accommodate the
lyrics
I'm having a hard time getting LilyPond to do just what I want here.
It's actually not that different from the Jurassic Park example given
in section 5.11.5 of the manual: I have a song whose rhythm varies
slightly to accommodate the lyrics in a second verse. The given example
has wholly