Definitely worth automating if at all possible! Cheers, Mike
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Nikolay Kirov <nkki...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, Mike, > > I have about a thousand Bulgarian folk songs in LilyPond format > > http://nikolay.kirov.be/2010/folk/FOLK_en.html > > A most of them have a refrain, which must be underlined following the > tradition from the books. > So, I need a tool (special engraver) to underline several syllables of > several notes. > > Cheers, > Nikolay > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Michael Ellis > <michael.f.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a thought. Nikolay, does it make sense to add the underlines after > the > > fact with a PDF editor? Or do you hav e hundreds of items to underline? > > Cheers, > > Mike > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Nikolay Kirov <nkki...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Yes, > >> Reinhold explained more precisely the problem - > >> I want to underline several syllables of several notes, but all in one > >> go, i.e. the underline line should not be broken, but span several > >> syllables. > >> Unfortunately, it seems this is not possible in the current version of > >> LilyPond. > >> > >> Thanks for answers, > >> Nikolay > >> > >> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer > >> <reinh...@kainhofer.com> wrote: > >> > Am Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 2010, um 18:02:25 schrieb Federico Bruni: > >> >> If you want a continuous line you should put the text inside "". > >> > > >> > I don't think that's what Nikolay actually wants. I think he wants the > >> > exact > >> > opposite: He wants to underline several consecutive syllables > (assigned > >> > to > >> > several consecutive notes), without having to wrap each of the > syllables > >> > in > >> > \markup{\underline ...}. > >> > > >> > AFAICS, that's currently not possible in LilyPond, since the > \underline > >> > command does not set some font property, but rather explicitly > >> > constructs a > >> > line with the extents of the given markup. > >> > > >> > Cheers. > >> > Reinhold > >> > > >> > PS: Actually, re-reading his request again, I think what he really > wants > >> > is to > >> > underline several syllables of several notes, but all in one go, i.e. > >> > the > >> > underline line should not be broken, but span several syllables. > >> > > >> > As each syllable is a markup on its own, this could only be properly > >> > implemented by a spanner, so one would need to write a dedicated > >> > engraver for > >> > underlined lyrics... > >> > > >> > > >> >> Il giorno 30/dic/2010 11.55, "Nikolay Kirov" <nkki...@gmail.com> ha > >> >> scritto: > >> >> > Hello all, > >> >> > > >> >> > I have a task to underline a part of the text in \addlyrics block. > >> >> > I found > >> >> > \addlyrics{ aa- \markup { \underline bb- } cc- dd } > >> >> > and it works but underline only one item. > >> >> > Repeating this pattern does not solve the task because I need a > >> >> > continuous > >> >> > >> >> line. > >> >> > >> >> > The syntax > >> >> > \addlyrics{ aa- \markup { \underline bb- cc- dd } ee } > >> >> > does not work. > >> >> > > >> >> > Cheers, > >> >> > Nikolay > >> >> > > >> >> > -- > >> >> > Nikolay Kirov Kirov > >> >> > http://www.math.bas.bg/~nkirov/ > >> >> > http://nikolay.kirov.be/ > >> >> > Office: (+359) 2 979 2850, 2 811 0611 > >> >> > Home: (+359) 2 856 8627, 0887 198 221 > >> >> > nki...@nbu.bg > >> >> > nki...@math.bas.bg > >> >> > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > >> >> > lilypond-user mailing list > >> >> > lilypond-user@gnu.org > >> >> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, > >> > http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ > >> > * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria > >> > * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 > >> > * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Nikolay Kirov Kirov > >> http://www.math.bas.bg/~nkirov/ > >> http://nikolay.kirov.be/ > >> Office: (+359) 2 979 2850, 2 811 0611 > >> Home: (+359) 2 856 8627, 0887 198 221 > >> nki...@nbu.bg > >> nki...@math.bas.bg > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> lilypond-user mailing list > >> lilypond-user@gnu.org > >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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