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Vocal music 203
\score {
\new Staff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" }
{
\key g \minor
\cadenzaOn
\stemOff a'\breve bes'4 g'4
\stemOn a'2 \bar "||"
\stemOff a'\breve g'4 a'4
\stemOn f'2 \bar "||"
\stemOff a'\breve^\markup { \italic flexe }
\stemOn g'2 \bar "||"
}
}
flexe
Forcing hyphens to be shown
If LilyPond does not think there is space for a hyphen, it will be omitted. The behaviour can
be overridden with the minimum-distance property of LyricHyphen.
\relative c'' {
c32 c c c
c32 c c c
c32 c c c
c32 c c c
}
\addlyrics {
syl -- lab word word
\override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #1.0
syl -- lab word word
\override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #2.0
syl -- lab word word
\revert LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance
syl -- lab word word
}
syllab
word word syl lab word word syl
Formatting lyrics syllables
lab word
Markup mode may be used to format individual syllables in lyrics.
word syllab
word word
mel = \relative c'' { c4 c c c }
lyr = \lyricmode {
Lyrics \markup { \italic can } \markup { \with-color #red contain }
\markup { \fontsize #8 \bold Markup! }
}