LilyPond Internals Reference: 3.1.63 LyricText

### 3.1.63 LyricText

LyricText objects are created by: Lyric_engraver.

Standard settings:

> `extra-spacing-height` (pair of numbers):

>   `'(0.2 . -0.2)`

>   In the horizontal spacing problem, we increase the height of each item by this amount (by adding the ‘car’ to the bottom of the item and adding the ‘cdr’ to the top of the item). In order to make a grob infinitely high (to prevent the horizontal spacing problem from placing any other grobs above or below this grob), set this to `(-inf.0 . +inf.0)`.

> `extra-spacing-width` (pair of numbers):

>   `'(0.0 . 0.0)`

>   In the horizontal spacing problem, we pad each item by this amount (by adding the ‘car’ on the left side of the item and adding the ‘cdr’ on the right side of the item). In order to make a grob take up no horizontal space at all, set this to `(+inf.0 . -inf.0)`.

> `font-series` (symbol):

>   `'medium`

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

> `font-size` (number):

>   `1.0`

>   The font size, compared to 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.

> `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. Other numerical values may also be specified.

> `stencil` (stencil):

>   `lyric-text::print`

>   The symbol to print.

> `text` (markup):

>   `#<procedure #f (grob)>`

>   Text markup. See Formatting text.

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

>   `0.6`

>   Space to insert between words in texts.

> `X-offset` (number):

>   `ly:self-alignment-interface::aligned-on-x-parent`

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

This object supports the following interface(s): font-interface, grob-interface, item-interface, lyric-syllable-interface, rhythmic-grob-interface, self-alignment-interface and text-interface.

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