Re: [lyric sheet stylesheet] fixing lyric spacing

2018-12-09 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi, On 07.12.18 19:27, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi Alex, David's and Mike's "magnetic snapping lyrics"? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-03/msg00489.html Yes — I have an old copy in my "Workarounds" include folder. But I ran into a lot of problems with it (maybe

Re: [lyric sheet stylesheet] fixing lyric spacing

2018-12-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/7/18, 12:10 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" wrote: Hi Carl, > I've just been doing some choral engraving where lyric hyphens are eliminated where there is no space. And I haven't used any special tools. But if you look at "people" (for example), you’ll see there’s a space

Re: [lyric sheet stylesheet] fixing lyric spacing

2018-12-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Carl, > I've just been doing some choral engraving where lyric hyphens are eliminated > where there is no space. And I haven't used any special tools. But if you look at "people" (for example), you’ll see there’s a space (but no hyphen) there. I’m trying to generate "perfect" words.

Re: [lyric sheet stylesheet] fixing lyric spacing

2018-12-07 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/7/18, 11:19 AM, "Alexander Kobel" wrote: Hi Kieren, without even looking at your example, to be honest, but a shot in the dark: Fo you still remember David's and Mike's "magnetic snapping lyrics"?

Re: [lyric sheet stylesheet] fixing lyric spacing

2018-12-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Alex, > David's and Mike's "magnetic snapping lyrics"? > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-03/msg00489.html Yes — I have an old copy in my "Workarounds" include folder. But I ran into a lot of problems with it (maybe related to what Urs found?) and so had temporarily

Re: [lyric sheet stylesheet] fixing lyric spacing

2018-12-07 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi Kieren, without even looking at your example, to be honest, but a shot in the dark: Fo you still remember David's and Mike's "magnetic snapping lyrics"? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-03/msg00489.html This snippet eventually went into OpenLilyLib, and was apparently

[lyric sheet stylesheet] fixing lyric spacing

2018-12-07 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, In the snippet below, I’m trying to develop some custom contexts so that people can write out lyrics with chords (but no music). Right now, I’m trying to fix two things: 1. I want to eliminate all LyricHyphens entirely, and present words as complete words (rather than syllables). This