: Dotted slur and two lyric stanzas with different amount of syllables I have the following problem with two lyric stanzas for one voice, that have different syllables. The following example works with using an underscore at

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I did some further research and I found a quite simple way in the lilypond docs and applied it.

score {
new Staff
<<
new Voice = "melodie"
relative c' {
c d e f |
slurDotted
g2( g) |
a4
}
new Lyrics lyricsto "melodie"
lyricmode {
set stanza = "1."
one two three four five six
}
new Lyrics lyricsto "melodie"
lyricmode {
set stanza = "2."
two three four five
set ignoreMelismata = ##t
sev -- en
unset ignoreMelismata
eight
}
>>
}

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None of the syllables for stanzas 1 and 2 line up correctly in @nath 's workaround, because the horizontal spacing of the "hidden" notes in voice two is the same as if they were not hidden.

A better fix is not to use voice two, and simply assign both sets of lyrics to the same voice "melodie".

You can switch off the side-effect of the slur in automatically creating a melisma between the slurred notes. You then need to add a dummy "blank" lyric in stanza 1 for the second tied note.

I added an extra note to the OP's example to show that more clearly.

score {
new Staff
<<
new Voice = "melodie"
relative c' {
c d e f |
slurDotted
set melismaBusyProperties = #'()
g2( g) |
unset melismaBusyProperties
a4
}
new Lyrics lyricsto "melodie"
lyricmode {
set stanza = "1."
one two three four five " " six
}
new Lyrics lyricsto "melodie"
lyricmode {
set stanza = "2."
two three four five sev -- en eight
}
>>
}

The apparent misalignment of the syllables "five" and "sev(en)" is actually correct, though it looks a bit strange. According to standard texts on music notation, a syllable sung to a single note should be centered under the note, but a syllable sung to several notes should be left-justified under the first note, which is what Lilypond does here.