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however, you can use <code>#LEFT</code>, <code>#CENTER</code> and <code>#RIGHT</code> as well. <blockquote> <pre class="verbatim"> \layout { ragged-right = ##f } \relative c'' { c1 c1 c1 } \addlyrics { \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT "This is left-aligned" \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER "This is centered" \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #1 "This is right-aligned" } </pre> <p> <a href="../5b/lily-66a1f387.ly"> <img align="middle" border="0" src="../5b/lily-66a1f387.png" alt="[image of music]"> </a> </p> </blockquote> <p class="noindent"> <h5 class="subsubheading">Selected Snippets</h5> <p>Checking to make sure that text scripts and lyrics are within the margins is a relatively large computational task. To speed up processing, LilyPond does not perform such calculations by default; to enable it, use <pre class="example">\override Score.PaperColumn #'keep-inside-line = ##t </pre> <p>To make lyrics avoid bar lines as well, use <pre class="example">\layout { \context { \Lyrics \consists "Bar_engraver" \consists "Separating_line_group_engraver" \override BarLine #'transparent = ##t } } </pre> <!-- TODO Create and add lsr example of lyricMelismaAlignment --> <!-- It's used like this to center-align all lyric syllables, --> <!-- even when notes are tied. -td --> <!-- footer_tag --><br><hr> <div class="node"> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Centering-lyrics-between-staves.html#Centering-lyrics-between-staves">Centering lyrics between staves</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Chants.html#Chants">Chants</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Placement-of-lyrics.html#Placement-of-lyrics">Placement of lyrics</a> </div> <div style="background-color: #e8ffe8; padding: 2; border: #c0ffc0 1px solid;"> <p> <font size="-1"> This page is for LilyPond-2.11.57 (development-branch). <br> <address> Report errors to <a href="http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs">http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.bugs</a>. </address> <br> Your <a href="http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/documentation-adding">suggestions for the documentation</a> are welcome. </font> </p> </div> <P> Other languages: <a href="Spacing-out-syllables.fr.html">français</a>, <a href="Spacing-out-syllables.es.html">español</a>. <BR> </P> </BODY></html>