----- Original Message -----
From: "Janek Warchoł" <[email protected]>
To: "LilyPond Developmet Team" <[email protected]>; "Mike Solomon"
<[email protected]>; "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <[email protected]>; "David
Kastrup" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:59 PM
Subject: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed
Hi hackers,
I need your opinion on this to proceed with generalizing alignment
stuff (https://codereview.appspot.com/7768043).
What should be the the desired behaviour of "standalone" lyrics, i.e.
lyrics that don't have associatedVoice set? If you look at this
snippet (output attached),
{ c'2 c' d' d' }
\addlyrics { foo bar la mmm }
<<
{ c'2 c' d' d' }
\new Lyrics { \lyricmode { foo2 bar la mmm } }
you'll see that lyrics attached to notes (\addlyrics sets
associatedVoice) are centered, while "independent" lyrics are
left-aligned. I think that this behaviour is suboptimal - in my
opinion it would be better if lyrics were centered in both cases.
What are your opinions?
The code that's responsible for this behaviour is in lines 134-135 of
self-alignment-interface.cc, and was introduced by commit ebb1f1f1.
I've taken the liberty to cc Han-Wen because he wrote the code in the
first place, as well as David because he's usually interested in
consistency and polishing rough edges.
thanks,
Janek
Without doubt, lyrics that are only a single note long should be centred on
the note. Left alignment is only correct where a single syllable occupies
two notes or more.
--
Phil Holmes
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