Hi Simon, > first of all: Looks like a nice piece!
Thanks! You can hear it at <http://kierenmacmillan.info/withers-carol/>, if you’re interested. > Second: offtopic nitpicks. There are some superfluous LyricExtenders there – > I’d rather leave them out if they are very short I include all LyricExtenders, until the layout is finalized; only then can I possibly know whether they’re “too short”. :) > And note the mid-air bar-numbers, where they are aligned with ScoreMarks. I’d > move Bar_number_engraver to the topmost staff. That’s a whole separate Lilypond bug, which I deal with using the edition-engraver. Note also that your solution is insufficient, since the topmost staff will periodically disappear and reappear (frenched score). > And I like for long syllables to be increasingly left-aligned This is one of the many, many lyric-related problems in Lilypond. (See my numerous other posts and sponsorship offers on that topic.) I solve almost all of them post-hoc, using the edition-engraver. > for which I wrote a custom grob callback. I’d be happy to look at that, if you’re willing to share it. (I have yet to find a callback that satisfies me in that regard.) > I’d vote to keep with four staves, at least in this example. Thanks for the vote… :) But I’ll be outputting at least four different scores for this piece: full score (U.S. letter), vocal score (U.S. letter), and vocal score (octavo). I am trying to reduce the number of pages, both to keep page turning to a minimum, and because many customers will be downloading PDFs and printing their own (and I want to minimize their printing costs). Additionally, I find unnecessary redundancy in scores irritating as both a conductor/performer and as an aesthete. My goal is always to include the bare minimum information to get the job done as efficiently and elegantly as possible. > It _would_ of course be great to have a good mechanism for that in LilyPond, > but it looks like a really involved task. I don’t think so… We have \quoteDuring, and \divisi, and a number of other great features. I was just hoping I didn’t have to roll my own solution, without any extra eyes. Thanks, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
