I'm having the same problem. I am mixing up Latin and Hebrew lettering
in the lyrics, and I want them ALL to render strictly Left-to-Right. Is
there any way to do this in Lilypond? You can see the problem it causes
in this example:
http://hymns.reactor-core.org/HaikVantoura/Shema4.pdf
This causes problems because I am trying to put the Hebrew lettering
underneath a strict letter-for-letter English transliteration of the
text. The English transliteration is Left-to-Right, but the Hebrew gets
munged as Right-to-Left on a syllable by syllable basis!
Ted
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:34:41PM -0000, dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009, Richard Schoeller <schoel...@comcast.net> said:
One common approach when combining a right-to-left language with
left-to-right musical notation is to render each syllable of the lyrics
right-to-left but have the overall flow of the music left-to-right. I
haven't tried this with any of the stuff that I've done (I present the
lyrics in transliteration). So, I can't tell you how well this works in
LilyPond.
However it is done, and by whatecer program, there are some pretty hefty
issues for position-contextual writing systems such as arabic. Arabic
letters have variant shapes when used in different positions (opening,
middle, closing); fragmenting a wordd into sylables exposes middle
letters; not at all sure the common reader is used to seeing that.
Further, when placed correctly under the music they will be presented in
backwards order:
hava nagilla
is shown as
ah - av_ an - lig - al_
which is less of a challenge for a markup-based entry system like lilypond
than it is for a GUI-based system that attempts WYSIWYG editing of the
lyrics in place (of interest here should we someday go for that). The
challenge being to re-order the syllables (unnaturally) as the user splits
the words for us.
--
Dana Emery
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