For short pieces I’ll see where Lilypond breaks and insert accordingly. Or I
tell Lilypond where to break.
Besides:
What do you do when there are more stanzas?
Just curious,
Michael
Mobil gesendet
> Am 20.04.2020 um 17:16 schrieb Benjamin Bloomfield <bhb...@gmail.com>:
>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I would do that if I knew where the system breaks
> were going to occur ahead of time. I put the line break in the example code
> just to simplify it and demonstrate the problem with very little code.
>
> Benjamin Bloomfield
>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:23 AM Michael Gerdau <m...@qata.de> wrote:
>> Why don’t you insert another \set stanza = "2." In front of the second
>> "Should" ?
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Michael
>>
>> Mobil gesendet
>>
>>>> Am 20.04.2020 um 16:14 schrieb Benjamin Bloomfield <bhb...@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've been using shortVocalName to engrave stanza numbers at the beginnings
>>> of systems, but I'm running into trouble with occasional collisions with
>>> the first LyricText:
>>> <image.png>
>>>
>>> Here is my lilypond code:
>>> \version "2.20.0"
>>> \score {
>>> <<
>>> \new Staff
>>> <<
>>> \clef "treble"
>>> \new Voice = "sop" { c'4 \bar "" \break c' }
>>> >>
>>>
>>> {
>>> <<
>>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto sop { \lyricmode {
>>> \set stanza = "2. "
>>> \set shortVocalName = "2. "
>>> Should Should
>>> }}
>>> >>
>>> }
>>>
>>> >>
>>> }
>>> \layout {
>>> \context { \Lyrics
>>> \override InstrumentName.direction = #RIGHT
>>> \override InstrumentName.padding = #1.5
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to go about automatically avoiding these collisions, but
>>> it seems like there should be a relatively simple way to do so. Does
>>> anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Benjamin Bloomfield
>>> <!test.ly>
