Re: Help with some lyrics gymnastics

2024-01-17 Thread Matthew Fong
Thank you again, Thomas. I'm going to try this out this week! Matt

Re: Help with some lyrics gymnastics

2024-01-15 Thread Thomas Richter
Hello again, a few more ideas: My solution uses the TextSpanner which works for two or more notes. But for a single note (syllable), a function like your lyricsWithOption is more suitable. The following draws the separating line in the proper length. %%---

Re: Help with some lyrics gymnastics

2024-01-15 Thread Matthew Fong
Hello Thomas, That works splendidly. Thank you. The NullVoice is a new concept to me, and seems necessary here. I also found the same LSR example and was working through trying to understand it. Many thanks, mattfong

Re: Help with some lyrics gymnastics

2024-01-14 Thread Thomas Richter
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 6:09 PM Matthew Fong wrote: I'm trying to replicate lyrics as shown in the red box (the Roman Missal in English), where 1/ Lyric options are *stacked* and separated by a horizontal line 2/ Lyrics without options are*vertically centered* relative to the

Re: Help with some lyrics gymnastics

2024-01-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Jan 2024 at 08:25:32 (-0800), Matthew Fong wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've done a few more things which might be described as hacking using > \markup. > > \tweak LyricText.self-alignment-X #-0.75 > \markup \center-column { \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.4) \line{ "lives > and reigns"