Klaus,
Thanks for that. It did the trick, but I didn’t mention punctuation.
I did
me.
more words
you.
instead of
me
. more words
you
I would have preferred the latter, but it doesn’t seem possible to attach
punctuation to a vcenter construction without playing merry hob with the
spacing and alignment – but I suspect that I’ll be the only one to notice.
Thanks again,
Fred
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:55:45 +0200
> From: "K. Blum" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Lyrics: vertically stacking alternative words
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> Hi Fred,
>
> Am 24.06.2025 um 17:26 schrieb [email protected]:
> > Is there a simple way to set lyrics like the example below?
> >
> > I you
> > love
> > you me
> >
> > That is, "(I/you) love (you/me)," where the pronoun stacks are vertically
> > centered on the single lyric line.
> >
> > I tried << >> and \dropLyrics \raiseLyrics constructions, but <<>>
> doesn’t
> > work in lyric mode and \drop… and \raise… are no longer supported.
>
> here is something to experiment with:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \version "2.25.16"
> \relative c' {
> c2 c c c c1 c2 c
> }
> \addlyrics {
> some words
> \markup \vcenter \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.5) \center-column { I
> you }
> love
> \markup \raise #1.7 \override #'(baseline-skip . 2.5) \center-column {
> you me }
> more words
> }
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> Hope to help,
> Klaus
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