Hi Gabriel & Kieren,
Kieren and I would love to use the smart/automated #DOWNas it is
intended so that we can spend our teatimes debating matters at least a
bitmore fun than “#-0.835or #-0.81?” 🙏
Well, one could tweak the stencil extent of a markup such that it does
not take the descenders into account. The following is a very very crude
proof-of-concept (what about ascenders? what about multi-line markup?
what about automation? etc.), but just to show what I mean:
%%% SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.24.4"
musicAdvent = \relative c' {
\time 7/4 f1 f4 d2 | \bar "||"
\time 8/4 f1 f4 d4 e2 | \bar "||"
}
#(define-markup-command (alignToBaseLine layout props content) (markup?)
(let ((stil (interpret-markup layout props content))
(no-descender (interpret-markup layout props "i")))
(ly:make-stencil
(ly:stencil-expr stil)
(ly:stencil-extent stil X)
(cons (car (ly:stencil-extent no-descender Y))
(cdr (ly:stencil-extent stil Y))))))
collectAdvent = \lyricmode {
\markup
% The following line of code works,
% because “Lord announced unto” contains no descenders …
\general-align #Y #DOWN
{
\concat { "℣. "
\column {
\line { The Angel of the }
\line { Lord announced unto }
}
}
}
Ma -- ry.
\markup
% The following line of code *does not work,*
% because the word “by” has a descender …
\general-align #Y #DOWN
{
\concat { "℟. "
\column {
\line \bold \alignToBaseLine { And she }
\line \bold \alignToBaseLine { conceived by the }
}
}
}
Ho -- ly Ghost.
}
\score {
<<
\new Voice = "firstversicle" \musicAdvent
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "firstversicle" \collectAdvent
>>
}
%%% SNIPPET ENDS
Lukas
