Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

2012-12-18 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: m...@mikesolomon.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:04 AM Subject: Best practices in lyric typesetting Hey all, Putting aside the impossibility of the attached exercise, you'll see that the lyrics stay shifted way down

Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

2012-12-18 Thread m...@mikesolomon.org
On 18 déc. 2012, at 10:19, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: m...@mikesolomon.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:04 AM Subject: Best practices in lyric typesetting Hey all, Putting aside the impossibility

Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

2012-12-18 Thread Vaughan McAlley
On 18 December 2012 20:19, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net wrote: - Original Message - From: m...@mikesolomon.org To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:04 AM Subject: Best practices in lyric typesetting Hey all, Putting aside the impossibility

Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

2012-12-18 Thread Marek Klein
Hello, 2012/12/18 m...@mikesolomon.org m...@mikesolomon.org I'll tell that to my singers as they tar and feather me. I would forse a line break in such a case. Marek Klein http://gregoriana.sk ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

2012-12-18 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: m...@mikesolomon.org To: Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net Cc: m...@mikesolomon.org; lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:23 AM Subject: Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting On 18 déc. 2012, at 10:19, Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net

Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

2012-12-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
A line of text should be parallel to the stave for the length of the system, and not be placed on different levels to accommodate notes below the stave. This refers to lyrics. I'll tell that to my singers as they tar and feather me. Now you know why different clefs do exist to avoid

Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

2012-12-18 Thread Arle Lommel
MS, Putting aside the impossibility of the attached exercise, you'll see that the lyrics stay shifted way down for the part of the attached example that moves to D major. I ran into the reverse problem with pedal markings the other day: they were *not* aligned (and in fact seemed to behave

Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

2012-12-18 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org writes: A line of text should be parallel to the stave for the length of the system, and not be placed on different levels to accommodate notes below the stave. This refers to lyrics. I'll tell that to my singers as they tar and feather me. Now you know

Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

2012-12-18 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:59 AM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Actually, singers don't like such things. It interferes with their pitch sense. I think the Carmina Burana has some piece for a bass or baritone falsettist and it is written in $#!! bass clef, with oodles of ledger lines.