Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 23.09.2015 01:20, David Kastrup wrote: Simon Albrecht writes: I made an essay on a simpler input interface, which redefines \startTextSpan as a music function. That would be much preferable at least in my eyes. What do you think? (I hope there wouldn’t be any merge

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

David Nalesnik wrote Monday, September 21, 2015 5:13 PM > I'm attaching a rewrite of the code which allows an easy mix of > markups/strings and interprets hyphens as connectors. > Now there's no need for a TextSpanner.connectors property. ... and hardly any need for the

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Simon Albrecht wrote: I made an essay on a simpler input interface, which redefines > \startTextSpan as a music function. That would be much preferable at least > in my eyes. What do you think? If you can get this working, it would be a

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 21.09.2015 18:13, David Nalesnik wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM, David Kastrup > wrote: David Nalesnik > writes: > Here's a preliminary experiment with using \lyricmode as

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 22.09.2015 22:03, Trevor Daniels wrote: David Nalesnik wrote Monday, September 21, 2015 5:13 PM I'm attaching a rewrite of the code which allows an easy mix of markups/strings and interprets hyphens as connectors. Now there's no need for a TextSpanner.connectors property. ... and hardly

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Simon Albrecht writes: > I made an essay on a simpler input interface, which redefines > \startTextSpan as a music function. That would be much preferable at > least in my eyes. What do you think? > (I hope there wouldn’t be any merge conflicts here…) > However, I’m

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi Trevor, On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > ... and hardly any need for the text-spanner-line-count, as it's easy > to split up the text by system (since manual breaks are needed > anyway to control the placement) like this: > > music =

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Simon Albrecht writes: > On 19.09.2015 22:48, David Kastrup wrote: >> However, (re-)using engravers for the "picking apart" bit in a context >> without its own vertical axis group might be an interesting option. >> Want several text spanners? Use several contexts. > >

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 21.09.2015 15:04, David Nalesnik wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 7:09 PM, David Nalesnik > > wrote: >> >> >> OK, I see. Using

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 7:09 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > David, > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> David Nalesnik writes: >> >> > (As an aside: I must say that David's suggestion of using lyrics

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 21.09.2015 15:04, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 7:09 PM, David Nalesnik > wrote: OK, I see. Using \lyricmode would be a user-friendly way to specify markups/strings, connectors/no connectors, and

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

David Nalesnik writes: > Definitely softens the blow! (While we're here--though it doesn't > affect the user--I should have omitted the "parser location" from the > extractTexts function. New tricks, old dog.) In Germany, there is a sort of New Year's Eve tradition

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > David Nalesnik writes: > > > Here's a preliminary experiment with using \lyricmode as an input device > > for text spanner details. It could easily be incorporated into the > larger > > function,

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:13 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > I'm attaching a rewrite of the code which allows an easy mix of > markups/strings and interprets hyphens as connectors. Now there's no need > for a TextSpanner.connectors property. > > I should mention that

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:09 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > David Nalesnik writes: > > > Definitely softens the blow! (While we're here--though it doesn't > > affect the user--I should have omitted the "parser location" from the > > extractTexts function.

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

David Nalesnik writes: > Here's a preliminary experiment with using \lyricmode as an input device > for text spanner details. It could easily be incorporated into the larger > function, but I've pared this down to ask a question. > > Is it possible to avoid needing to

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Michael Gerdau writes: >> Hastening the end of the sketch? ;) > > For those not knowing this classic, here is a YT link of not too good > quality but which does transport the important parts: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqD0Dz_J-M Ah, the Swiss recording. It's rather

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

> Hastening the end of the sketch? ;) For those not knowing this classic, here is a YT link of not too good quality but which does transport the important parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqD0Dz_J-M Kind regards, Michael -- Michael Gerdau email: m...@qata.de GPG-keys available on

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 19.09.2015 22:48, David Kastrup wrote: However, (re-)using engravers for the "picking apart" bit in a context without its own vertical axis group might be an interesting option. Want several text spanners? Use several contexts. This reminds me: the ‘standard’ use case for this kind of text

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

David, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > David Nalesnik writes: > > > (As an aside: I must say that David's suggestion of using lyrics > > produces miraculous results without the hundreds and hundreds of lines > > of new code!

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

David Nalesnik wrote Saturday, September 19, 2015 7:14 PM On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:10 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > "Trevor Daniels" writes: > >> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/opera-and-stage-musicals#dialogue-over-music >> >> I'd

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi Trevor (et al.), > Actually for the purpose I had in mind (words over music but spoken and out > of rhythm) > we wouldn't need a spanner line, just the spaced-out text. After David N. made his wonderful MeasureAttachedSpanner for me, we spoke (briefly) of how it might be taken “to the goal

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi Trevor, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > David Nalesnik wrote Saturday, September 19, 2015 7:14 PM > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:10 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > [...] > > Right now LyricHyphen will draw something resembling

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

d like to see this developed and added to LP core. > > > > Trevor > > > > - Original Message - > > From: David Nalesnik > > To: Simon Albrecht > > Cc: lilypond-user > > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 11:58 PM > >

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:14 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: Right now LyricHyphen will draw something resembling the spanner line, but > comprised of a succession of round-filled boxes. An enhancement of the > stencil callback would be needed to allow for all the

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi David, > Alright! This should do it… Amazing! (As always…) > Change the distance from text to line with TextSpanner.line-offset, which > defaults to #'(0.0 . 0.0). Love this. Is there a tweak for the vertical position of the line (independent of the text)? > P.S. One area of further

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi Kieren, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > Change the distance from text to line with TextSpanner.line-offset, > which defaults to #'(0.0 . 0.0). > > Love this. Is there a tweak for the vertical position of the line > (independent

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi David, > Sure, no problem. I added a 'line-Y-offset property which just raises/lowers > the line without any reference to the texts. Perfect! Thanks. (To my eye, a setting of about 0.0875 is right.) > For consistency, I renamed 'line-offset to 'line-X-offset. Makes sense. Thanks again,

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi Kieren, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi David, > > > Sure, no problem. I added a 'line-Y-offset property which just > raises/lowers the line without any reference to the texts. > > Perfect! Thanks. > (To my eye, a setting of

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

David Nalesnik writes: > (As an aside: I must say that David's suggestion of using lyrics > produces miraculous results without the hundreds and hundreds of lines > of new code! Don't want a connector line? Don't write a hyphen. > Etc.) Actually, we might have had

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi Trevor (et al.), > This looks potentially very useful for adding spoken words which need to be > said during a passage of music, often required in musical theatre. If we do this, let’s do it right… I’m willing to pay some sponsorship for it. Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

#dialogue-over-music I'd like to see this developed and added to LP core. Trevor - Original Message - From: David Nalesnik To: Simon Albrecht Cc: lilypond-user Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 11:58 PM Subject: Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan Hi, Alright

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

t; From: David Nalesnik > To: Simon Albrecht > Cc: lilypond-user > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 11:58 PM > Subject: Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan > > > Hi, > > > Alright! This should do it... > > > You can: > > > --A

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi, Alright! This should do it... You can: --Adapt this for versions < 2.19.27 with a loss of overriding power (style, dash-fraction, etc.)--see comments beginning in line 435 --Use/mix markups and strings. --Specify any number of texts >= 2 for your spanner. --Break it across an arbitrary

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi Simon, On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Simon Albrecht wrote: > David, > > This is tremendous! Thank you very much. > You're very welcome! I was inspired to fix some of the issues with this last version. Texts are better distributed among the pieces of broken

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 12:17 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > > Hopefully another step forward! > > Attached is an improvement. 2.19.27 has been released, and you need this version to get the full functionality here. (There is provision for earlier versions--see note far

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Tried to compile with version 2.19.25 .../tmp/frescobaldi-6V3LoT/tmpI8U_qS/text-spanner-centered-text.ly:152:20 <0>: In expression (ly:line-interface::line grob (caar exts) ...): /tmp/frescobaldi-6V3LoT/tmpI8U_qS/text-spanner-centered-text.ly:152:20 <1>: Unbound variable:

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

David, This is tremendous! Thank you very much. This should definitely make it’s way into the official installation once it’s reasonably finished. Yours, Simon Am 14.09.2015 um 14:22 schrieb David Nalesnik: On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 12:17 PM, David Nalesnik

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Am 14.09.2015 um 14:34 schrieb BB: Tried to compile with version 2.19.25 .../tmp/frescobaldi-6V3LoT/tmpI8U_qS/text-spanner-centered-text.ly:152:20 <0>: In expression (ly:line-interface::line grob (caar exts) ...): /tmp/frescobaldi-6V3LoT/tmpI8U_qS/text-spanner-centered-text.ly:152:20 <1>:

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi, > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Caio Giovaneti de Barros < > caio.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello David! >> >> On 02-09-2015 10:19, David Nalesnik wrote: >> >>> >>> Try this out: >>> >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00405.html >>> >>> >> This looks ok, but

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 12:17 PM, David Nalesnik wrote: > > Image attached in further post. > > ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

On 02-09-2015 10:08, Andrew Bernard wrote: I am not sure how long you may have been following things, but this topic came up for me recently, and there is various discussion in the archives. Yes, I made a search through the list the best I could, but I didn't find this (maybe the titles

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi Caio, Welcome to the list. I am not sure how long you may have been following things, but this topic came up for me recently, and there is various discussion in the archives. In a nutshell, the answer is not really. It’s possible of course, but can it be done simply and easily, that’s the

Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan

Hi Caio, On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Andrew Bernard wrote: there is various discussion in the archives. Try this out: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-05/msg00405.html Best, David ___