"Trevor Daniels" <[email protected]> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote Saturday, March 16, 2013 8:36 AM
>
>
>> Janek Warchoł <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Do you mean that we should recommend/give more attention in docs to
>>> entering lyrics with explicit durations?
>>
>> "more"? I don't think we even mention that possibility at all.
>
> Wrong; see
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#entering-lyrics
> and
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#manual-syllable-durations
Ok, so I misremembered. Behavior and its fine points are documented. I
am just skeptical that the selection of fine points is fine. Do we
really need a particular associated voice instead of being able to do
this with general music column alignment?
>> Anything else except changing the rhythm of the lyrics. Aligning
>> lyrics at a point of time to notecolumns at the same point of time
>> should not require associating voices.
>
> Agreed. Making the override work as might be expected in
> <<
> { c'2 c' d' d' }
> \new Lyrics {
> \lyricmode {
> \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #CENTER
> foo2 bar la mmm
> }
> }
>>>
> would be helpful, as Janek has suggested.
I am not sure I get the fine points of the design.
--
David Kastrup
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