In the version 2.12, I discovered bug in note spacing: Note spacing ignores the extent of the lyric syllable when a note preceding that syllable is without a lyric. This occurs especially on a note which immediatelly follows an end of a melisma. The syllable (when centered-aligned) is printed so that it overlaps with the last note(s) of the preceding melisma, which makes it very difficult for a singer to discern which note the syllable belongs to!
Although there was some http://www.nabble.com/Lyrics-spacing-problem---overlapping-syllables-td21665565.html minor discussion whether this is a bug or *only* a note spacing limitation of Lilypond, I still think this is a bug. Since the code for the note/lyric spacing already exists in the Lilypond and since this code does not produce the desired behavior, then it follows that it is a genuine bug. In the case of TextScripts, we have the \textLengthOn function to make Lilypond honor the extent of the markup. However, for the lyrics, this function does not work. It would be marvellous, if this function could work also for the lyrics, if nothing else was possible. This bug occurs in the default notational style, but also (and perhaps even more visibly) in the Gregorian notation. I used the Sanctus example from the official Notational Reference of Lilypond (v. 2.12, chapter 2.8.4) to show how unclearly the neumata are divided into the lyric syllables - in the first and the third Sanctus, the second syllable *ctus* is always printed under the flexa of the preceding syllable *San-*. How should the singer know which neume the syllable belongs to? I made also the corrected version of this example where the music is spaced appropriately. However, this correction was not done in Lilypond, but in a graphical editor. (By the way, note that I changed also the Breathe sign positions to make them appear more logically - the breath sign positioning is also a problem). http://www.nabble.com/file/p21786429/sanctus2.8.4_Srovnani.png In a normal notational style, I also produced a small example of the bug and also provided the corrected version (the corrected version was done again in the Photoshop). http://www.nabble.com/file/p21786429/non_honored_longtext_srovnani.png %And this is the Lilypond code of the example: \version "2.12.1" \paper { #(set-paper-size "b5") line-width = 14.6\cm indent = 0.0 ragged-right = ##t } chant = \relative c'' {\time 12/8 d4 c8 a4 d,8 f16[ \melisma e d8 c] \melismaEnd d4. \bar "||" } %long syllable after the melisma - is not honored! verba = \lyricmode {Do I ho -- nor the longtext? } \score { << \new Voice = "cantus" { \chant } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "cantus" { \verba } >> \layout { \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } } } -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Note-spacing-does-not-honor-the-lyric-extent-tp21786429p21786429.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - Bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
