Lilypond: How can I write Lyrics without notes?

Question

For some files, I want to add lyrics only, using Lilypond. And for some texts I want to add ties in the lyrics, I don't know how to format it probably like a normal text. Can I use ties in markup mode, too?

The following code is based on the answer here but it has the spacing problem.

\version "2.22.1"

\header{
  tagline = ""
}

\layout {
  indent = 0
  ragged-right = ##t
}

\new Score \with {
  \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
  \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
  \remove "Bar_engraver"
}
<< 
  \new Lyrics \with {
  }
  \lyricmode {
      This~works already\break
      This is the second line, but how can I produce it directly below, like in markup mode?\break
      I could use the markup mode, but how could I get~ties~there?

  }
>>

The question linked is similar, but the answers don't solve my problem. Because of the spacing problem, both answers only work for one single line...

Answer 1

That’s what \tied-lyric is for. Lo and behold:

\markup \column {
  \tied-lyric { "This~works already" }
  \tied-lyric { "This is the second line, but how can I produce it directly below, like in markup mode?" }
  \tied-lyric { "I could use the markup mode, but how could I get~ties~there?" }
}

Answer 2

• Update: Although the docs implied it differently, it should be \tied-lyric{Here go the complete lyrics with~the ties.}

According to the docs there exist two possibilities and both using \markup. The following example shows the usage of ties in \markup-mode.

\version "2.22.1"

\header{
  tagline = ""
}

\layout {
  indent = 0
  ragged-right = ##t
}

\markup {
  This\tied-lyric "~"works not so good, but it's good enough...
}

The quality is worse than in lyricsmode though:

The docs also show how to add stanzas in \markup-mode, which works without notes, but same poor quality ties:

• Here I found a discussion about tweaking the poor quality tie.