This looks potentially very useful for adding spoken words which need to be said during a passage of music, often required in musical theatre. This is very difficult and hackish to do with current LP - see
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/opera-and-stage-musicals#dialogue-over-music I'd like to see this developed and added to LP core. Trevor ----- Original Message ----- From: David Nalesnik To: Simon Albrecht Cc: lilypond-user Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 11:58 PM Subject: Re: Text centralized above a TextSpan Hi, Alright! This should do it... You can: --Adapt this for versions < 2.19.27 with a loss of overriding power (style, dash-fraction, etc.)--see comments beginning in line 435 --Use/mix markups and strings. --Specify any number of texts >= 2 for your spanner. --Break it across an arbitrary number of lines, with an acceptable distribution. --Use spacers ("") to force texts closer/farther apart. You can also move them like this: \markup \translate [...] \markup \right-align [...] etc. --Override the number of texts per line if you don't like the automatic distribution. There's a warning if the numbers don't tally. --Specify which texts will be joined by a line and which won't using TextSpanner.connectors. I noticed this request in another related thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user%40gnu.org/msg103939.html The default is to join everything, and we revert to that with a warning if you specify too few connections. (Full disclosure: you can't hide one half of a line crossing a break and show the other half, but unless there's some pressing need, I'm going to forget I noticed this....) --Change the distance from text to line with TextSpanner.line-offset, which defaults to #'(0.0 . 0.0). Additionally, there are warnings for overlaps. There's no attempt at fixing these. I wouldn't know how to influence spacing. By the way, is there a way to get spacing to accommodate really long left/right texts with ordinary TextSpanners without resorting to \newSpacingArea, manual breaks, and the like? I don't find a mechanism: \textLengthOn doesn't seem to work... Enjoy-- David P.S. One area of further improvement would be the input syntax. Any suggestions for making this more user-friendly? I can't figure out how to get markups to process properly without that off-putting #(list #{ \markup "foo" #} ) construction. %%%%%%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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