which is something I am working out and if I approach one of the big publishers do they handle all that ?
would need to get approval from the Libreria Editrice Vaticana office of the Vatican as they owned the copyright for the text.
No, not at all. This is counter to standard text underlay for a final syllable that extends over several notes. The traditional and accepted method (already a part of engraving programs, such as Finale and Sibelius) is to have "word extensions" in the form of an underscore that starts where the final syllable ends and runs to the beginning of the final note assigned to that syllable. To do it otherwise will only confuse and (probably greatly) annoy musicians trying to follow or to sing the text.... there might be places where we want to take the LIS and split that over say.. LI on one or two notes and the S on the ending note.
No, that is the final TWO syllables; the ending syllable is "-lem" (or "-em" depending upon your hyphenation predilections).... the ending syllable is -alem ...
An extender, a line of stave-line thickness, follows a final syllalable or monosyllabic word that extends beyond one written note, including a tied note.
The line extends to the last written note, but not to the end of the duration. Any puncuation goes at the end of the word, before the extender.
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