music21: displaying lyrics on rests

Question

I want to write lyrics on music21 on both notes and rests (to show different metrical levels). I need both objects having a similar layout, but notes' lyrics position is different that rests'.

Even more, some environments like lilypond don't even support lyrics on rests. I'm ok with that but I need some way to get a nice display for those lyrics.

As a reference, I'm trying to make an example like this one in the user guide

But if we look at the rest on measure 5, the lyric is displayed a little lower than the others. That's what I'm trying to fix.

Answer 1

You can use TextBox to display lyrics in locations that you can't otherwise put them.