Rainer Dunker wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:37:10AM +0100, Bodo Meissner wrote: > > > OK. But the feature centering a note on the middle vowel of a syllable > > > is an interesting point to implement, not only for gregorian, but for > > > any lyrics. > > > > It's definitely interesting. Is this used for other styles of music > > notation? > > I've never seen this in modern music notation - in engraved music, the > syllables are always centered around the noteheads (except for melismas, > where the syllables and notes are left-aligned to each other).
OK. I badly expressed my words: I want to have the lyrics aligned so that some letter of the lyrics syllable is just lbelow the note head. But in practice this leads to note head to be above a definite letter of the lyrics. > > > Indeed there is \csong in musixtex, but it centers the text > > > with a zero length, thus leading in lyrics overlapping it notes are to > > > close to another. It would then be nice to have "hardspaces" protecting > > > lyrics from overlapping. > > This is what some commercial music typesetting programs do, but IMHO > this often leads to a distracting, uneven note spacing. For me it's > totally okay that the spacing is controlled solely by the music, not the > written width of the words, since this reflects the way the music > is performed. If note spacing is too narrow for the lyrics, it's better > to widen up the music (by \scale or \linegoal or explicit line breaks) Nope! If one of the lyrics is above the word "schnellst" while the others only have 2 or 3 letters, it is wise to have an additional spacing for that specific lyrics. BTW, this is the purpose of the \hardlyrics in present MusiXTeX, which is very useful when choirs have very long one-syllable worts. > instead of aligning the music to the words. > > > > Thus, if I solve the problem for choirs, the gregorian > > > problem will be solved in the same time. > > I'd prefer a solution for Gregorian chant that's focused on this single > objective, since the challenges for both notation styles are so > different - rather than making any compromise in order to meet both. No. Choirs of any language exhibit the same problem of syllables of different lengths. > > Best regards, > > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Taupin, 91400 ORSAY - France E-mail= mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home/fax: (33)1.60.10.26.44. Rep.: (33)1.60.10.04.13, fax (work) (33)1.69.15.60.86 _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
