Hello, ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Phil Holmes [[email protected]] Sent: 29 December 2010 12:26 To: [email protected]; Keith OHara Subject: Re: centering the new Lyrics
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith OHara" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 7:08 AM Subject: centering the new Lyrics > Dear engravers of lyrics, > > The next version of LilyPond will handle empty spaces within lyrics > differently. > > If we have some adjacent lines of lyrics, version 2.12 collapses any empty > sections, so the set of lines collapses to the minimum vertical height. > > The new system by default preserves the space for the empty sections[*], > so that the lines remain consistently spaced. So far I have heard people > want to do two things: > (1) let interrupted lyrics collapse to a single line, > (2) perfectly center a line of lyrics between two staves. > The new system is very flexible, so we can do these things (attached). But > the new system is complicated, so I always forget and need to relearn how > to use it. > > I want to make a new snippet(s), or a shortcut command(s). Do people > really want to do such things? What else? Is the attached .ly > self-explanatory? > -- > Keith > > note[*] except between one line of Lyrics attached to the next staff #UP > and another line attached to the next staff #DOWN. In this case LilyPond > tries to let the lyrics collapse, but there is a bug (issue 1309) that > sometimes prevents them from lining up perfectly. I'd appreciate a snippet in the LSR to explain this. ------------ Actually if this is changing default behaviour I'd like text in the NR proper than a snippet. james _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
