I've recently switched my main computer from Windows to Ubuntu Linux. Before this change, I was using Sibelius quite a bit for hymnbook work. I am contemplating a change to Lilypond, but before I invest large amounts of time learning it, I was just hoping that a few experts who have used the program for a while can tell me if it is possible to have absolute control over lyric spacing?
With some of the hymns I worked on, an attempt was made to make every phrase fit into one line of music, so as to keep the hymn on one page. This involved really tight spacing control, especially when four or five lyric lines are involved. An excellent example of this can be seen in the following PDF, which I have tried to attach, and will also provide a download link: http://www.practicatechnical.com<nabble_a href= flowers.pdf /files/flowers.pdf">flowers.pdf . If you take a look at this file, you will see that sometimes to obtain a good readable text layout, words or parts of words had to be moved to the left or right of the note they belonged to. At other times, hyphens were ommitted, so as to save space...this means the word must be spaceable under two notes. It requires quite a bit of control over spacing to achieve this. Sibelius allowed me to do this...can I do the same with Lilypond? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Need-information-about-Lyric-spacing-in-Lilypond-tp21983959p21983959.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
