I wish I could find where it was located. I remembered seeing I think in a discussion rather than in documentation, but my memory fails me. I searched for it earlier and couldn't find it.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Richard Shann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 15:20 -0700, Lee Nelson wrote: > > OK, so somewhere I missed the need to have whitespace before the > > \override. > > I suspect it may not be documented anywhere I'm afraid; I've added font > and font size now to the lyrics menu, and mentioned about white space in > the tooltip. > > > Also, I had seen the expression "skip-over-lilypond-syntax" used, > > where was that? I could improve the wording .... > > Richard > > > 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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