LyricText - LilyPond program-reference
Description: LilyPond program-reference

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#### LyricText

LyricText objects are created by: Lyric_engraver

Standard settings:

`X-offset` (number):
  `ly:self-alignment-interface::aligned-on-x-parent`

  The horizontal amount that this object is moved relative to its X-parent

`self-alignment-X` (number):
  `0`

  Specify alignment of an object. The value -1 means left aligned, 0 centered, and 1 right-aligned in X direction. Values in between may also be specified.

`word-space` (dimension, in staff space):
  `0.6`

  space to insert between words in texts.

`font-series` (symbol):
  `'bold-narrow`

  Select the series of a font. Choices include `medium`, `bold`, `bold-narrow`, etc.

`font-size` (number):
  `1.0`

  The font size, compared the `normal' size. 0 is style-sheet's normal size, -1 is smaller, +1 is bigger. Each step of 1 is approximately 12% larger, 6 steps are exactly a factor 2 larger. Fractional values are allowed.

This object supports the following interfaces: font-interface, text-interface, self-alignment-interface, lyric-syllable-interface, rhythmic-grob-interface, item-interface and grob-interface

This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).

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