Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

Am 27.09.2016 um 16:34 schrieb David Kastrup: Urs Liska writes: But in general the advantage of a feature being solvable in the Scheme domain is that it can be done in the "user space", that is, without having to compile LilyPond yourself. This is not only lowering the

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

Am 27.09.2016 um 16:34 schrieb David Kastrup: > Urs Liska writes: > >> But in general the advantage of a feature being solvable in the Scheme >> domain is that it can be done in the "user space", that is, without >> having to compile LilyPond yourself. This is not only

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

Urs Liska writes: > But in general the advantage of a feature being solvable in the Scheme > domain is that it can be done in the "user space", that is, without > having to compile LilyPond yourself. This is not only lowering the > entry barrier but actually makes it

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

Am 27.09.2016 um 15:22 schrieb Simon Albrecht: >> Advantages of this solution: All that could be done in c / c++ / >> postscript, no need for scheme. >> As there is no need to understand and change the blackbox lilypond >> it's much easier and faster >> to implement. > > That’s an interesting

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

On 27.09.2016 14:45, Knut Petersen wrote: Am 25.09.2016 um 11:34 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Simon showed how to whiteout barlines, but Krzysztof also asked about aligning hyphens in verses. Have a look at the attached pdf and compare Lilyponds output to the hand-engraved original. Seems like

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

On 20.09.2016 12:11, Simon Albrecht wrote: On 19.09.2016 17:48, kmg wrote: From what I read, hyphens are always centered between syllables, so my question: is there a way to avoid them getting into barlines, I use the following in my standard style sheet: For the record, this is

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

Am 25.09.2016 um 11:34 schrieb Simon Albrecht: Simon showed how to whiteout barlines, but Krzysztof also asked about aligning hyphens in verses. Have a look at the attached pdf and compare Lilyponds output to the hand-engraved original. Seems like a good feature request. Could you please

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

On 25.09.2016 09:03, Knut Petersen wrote: Am 19.09.2016 um 19:01 schrieb Phil Holmes: Generally, songs with lyrics are set with a ChoirStaff rather than a StaffGroup. These do not have barlines spanning the space between the staves, and so the problem does not occur. IMHO: The LyricHyphen

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

Am 19.09.2016 um 19:01 schrieb Phil Holmes: Generally, songs with lyrics are set with a ChoirStaff rather than a StaffGroup. These do not have barlines spanning the space between the staves, and so the problem does not occur. IMHO: The LyricHyphen code in lilypond is able to handle only

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

Hi Simon! I use the following in my standard style sheet: \override LyricExtender.whiteout-style = #'outline I recommend to use whiteout-box here as it will translate to much smaller ps/pdf code and should give identical results. \override LyricHyphen.whiteout-style =

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

On 19.09.2016 17:48, kmg wrote: From what I read, hyphens are always centered between syllables, so my question: is there a way to avoid them getting into barlines, I use the following in my standard style sheet: % \version "2.19.32" % the following layer values need to

Re: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

, September 19, 2016 4:48 PM Subject: Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens? Hey guys, I recently discovered Lily and I like it a lot. For practice purposes I decided to engrave some old psalm and lyrics look bad. From what I read, hyphens are always centered between sylabes, so my question

Horizontal alingment of lyrics hyphens?

Hey guys, I recently discovered Lily and I like it a lot. For practice purposes I decided to engrave some old psalm and lyrics look bad. From what I read, hyphens are always centered between sylabes, so my question: is there a way to avoid them getting into barlines, or align them in verses?