My "solution" was not intended as a solution to the original question. It was intended as a comment on other ways to use spaces inside the parentheses. Sometimes one may want to force a hyphenation where gregorio might not otherwise place one.
On May 27, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Pierre François wrote: > Hello > > The solution proposed by Michael Martin stretches the Alleluia but > doesn't solve the problem of Martin Shirk who wants to have more space > between Alleluia and Amen. > > The solution Br. Innocent is better. The more spaces you add between the > parentheses, the more space you will have left open at that place. On > the contrary, the multiplication of spaces in the text itself will not > result in a bigger gap, because several spaces in the lyrics part have > the same effect as only one space. > > Fr. Pierre François > > On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 11:17 -0500, Michael Martin wrote: >> I would add that spaces are also a good way to get gregorio to hyphenate >> words that otherwise would not be hyphenated since the neum is as long or >> longer than the syllable it is associated with. This is useful when setting >> chants for those who are not as familiar with Latin. >> >> Al(d )le(e )lu(f )ia(d ) > Al- le- lu- ia >> >> >> On May 26, 2011, at 10:11 PM, Innocent Smith wrote: >> >>> You may insert multiple break characters, either spaces or /, within a set >>> of parentheses and get blank space that way. >>> E.g.: >>> >>> %% >>> Al(d)le(e)lu(f)ia(d) (::) ( ) A(d)men(f) (::) >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Michael Martin >> [email protected] >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users --------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Martin [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
