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There are three different issues when printing vocal music
d
should be interpreted as a one letter syllable, not the
note D.
The simplest solution for printing music uses the \addlyrics
function to solve all these problems at once. However, these
three functions can be controlled separately, which is necessary
for complex vocal music.
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
\override Score.PaperColumn #'keep-inside-line = ##t
To make lyrics avoid barlines as well, use
\layout { \context { \Lyrics \consists "Bar_engraver" \consists "Separating_line_group_engraver" \override BarLine #'transparent = ##t } }
This page is for LilyPond-2.8.0 (stable-branch).