Janek Warchoł <[email protected]> writes: > 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?
Without an associated voice, there is, with some likeliness, no longer a strict per-note relation with lyrics. In this case, lyrics are likely to _not_ be split into syllables. Typical use cases are songbooks _without_ notes, consisting just of chords and words. Why use LilyPond in the first place for that? Because it makes transposing easy. I am not sure this is enough reason to make the default alignment with and without \addlyrics different, but at least it should be reason enough to make the alignment configurable in a very straightforward way. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
