OK, so somewhere I missed the need to have whitespace before the \override. Also, I had seen the expression "skip-over-lilypond-syntax" used, but I didn't understand what it meant or what the feature does. Now I do. When I do as you suggested, I'm able to get exactly what I was looking for.
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Richard Shann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 02:29 -0700, Lee Nelson wrote: > > That's actually a variation of what I've been doing, except I edit the > > LilyPond and put the same types of commands in front of where the > > macros containing the verses are expanded in the layout section. When > > putting the font commands as you suggest in verses themselves, > > everything typesets correctly but in Denemo those commands show up as > > lyrics pushing the legitimate lyrics ahead of where they are supposed > > to be. > Denemo skips over \override stuff when placing the lyrics in the display > - I can't get it to make a mistake like you describe (the backslash must > be preceded by whitespace, I put them on a separate line as you can now > re-size the lyric pane this is easiest.) > Can you send a sample file if your problem persists? Or is it just that > you didn't check with newer versions - (though I thought the > skip-over-lilypond-syntax feature was there for quite a while, I can't > remember when I put it in ...) > > BTW if you can use the latest sources (1.1.9) the lyrics pane resizes > after being hidden better. > Also, please do "Group Reply" as others may wish to follow the thread. > Thanks, > Richard > > > > > > On Aug 21, 2014 2:22 AM, "Richard Shann" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 01:04 -0700, Lee Nelson wrote: > > > My first time here.... > > > > > > > > > I was anxiously awaiting the feature to control fonts for > > lyrics. I > > > downloaded 1.1.8 today but for the life of me, I can not > > find where > > > the option is located to control the fonts for lyrics. I > > see other > > > new lyrics features, but not fonts. Am I missing something > > very > > > obvious? > > > > I just looked up the LilyPond documentation and I see that > > fonts can > > easily be controlled for lyrics, but I didn't provide any > > convenient > > buttons for this :(. Playing around with it I added these > > lines to the > > start of a lyric verse (all on separate lines) > > > > \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic > > \override LyricText.font-size = #4 > > \override LyricText.font-name = #"Arial" > > > > and the lyrics changed from normal to italic, from the default > > size to a > > larger one, and from the default font to the Arial font. > > > > You can use any or all of these, but you have to be very > > careful to > > paste exactly the correct text in there - that's why having > > buttons to > > remember the exact text is so handy. In particular watch out > > for the # > > the ' and the " characters which have to be right. > > The size is 0 for default -1,-2... for smaller, 1,2 ..for > > larger. > > You need to look up the fonts you have on your own machine - I > > tried > > Dingbats and Gentium from the list given by the Character Map > > tool on my > > machine. > > > > HTH > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Denemo-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel > > > > > > >
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