Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-11 Thread David Rogers
Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: As I mentioned in another thread, I'm working on a hymnal/psalter project and ideally would like to justify both the left and right edges of each line of lyrics. I'm willing to settle for the left edge, if the right edge is too cumbersome to do. I

Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/4/9 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: I know this question has been posed before on this list, but either there wasn't a definitive answer that I could find or I just couldn't understand it. I know that I can manually trigger left-aligning syllables at the beginning of lines, using

Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-09 Thread Carl Peterson
As I mentioned in another thread, I'm working on a hymnal/psalter project and ideally would like to justify both the left and right edges of each line of lyrics. I'm willing to settle for the left edge, if the right edge is too cumbersome to do. I manually right-justified the last syllables on one

Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/4/9 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: As I mentioned in another thread, I'm working on a hymnal/psalter project and ideally would like to justify both the left and right edges of each line of lyrics. Interesting. I don't quite see why you would want that - i'd have to see a picture.

Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-09 Thread Carl Peterson
The best I can do for a sample at the moment is this PDF that is an advertisement for a hymnal that uses left-justified first syllables. It does not right-justify the last syllables. http://www.sumphoniahymnal.com/copy-content/hymnal-info-toc.pdf This hymnal does something else I wouldn't mind

RE: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-09 Thread Eduardo Silva
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:34:03 -0400 Subject: Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines From: carlopeter...@gmail.com To: janek.lilyp...@gmail.com CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org The best I can do for a sample at the moment is this PDF that is an advertisement for a hymnal

Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-09 Thread Carl Peterson
Eduardo, It's not so bad if you don't care where the system breaks are. For most hymns, the default behavior does a decent job of producing output with a reasonable density. The issue comes in if you want to lay your music out so that the lyrics are laid out with the same line breaks as if they

Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-09 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/4/9 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: The best I can do for a sample at the moment is this PDF that is an advertisement for a hymnal that uses left-justified first syllables. It does not right-justify the last syllables.

Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines

2013-04-08 Thread Carl Peterson
I know this question has been posed before on this list, but either there wasn't a definitive answer that I could find or I just couldn't understand it. I know that I can manually trigger left-aligning syllables at the beginning of lines, using \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT