On 12/29/10 5:41 AM, "James Lowe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Because it requires \override, it will need to be a snippet in Documentation/snippets/new, which will eventually become part of the LSR. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
