Hello, thanks quite a lot for your answer! Unfortunately I did send an out-of-phase input file (I experimented with different settings). Now I rerun the example at home with the final block
\score { \simultaneous { \addlyrics \context Staff = mel { \melody } \context Lyrics \text } \midi { \tempo 4=120} \paper { papersize = "a4" } } and obtained just one line with several overlaps in the text. An additional question: The midi output doesn't seem to produce any sound when played with Winamp on Win2000. What might be the reason? Best regards Alois PS.: I append the complete song for reference; hope that I don't waste too much bandwidth: \header { title = "Der schlafende Apfel " tagline = " " } \paper{ papersize = "a4" } \include "paper20.ly" \include "deutsch.ly" melody = \notes \relative c'' { \property Score.midiInstrument = "alto sax" \property Score.midiInstrument = "banjo" \key g \major \time 2/4 d8 d e e | d4 h | c8 c a a | g2 | d'8 d e e | d d h4 | c8 c a a | g2 \bar "|." } text = \lyrics < { \context LyricsVoice = "Soprano-1" \property LyricsVoice .stanza = "1:" \property LyricsVoice .stz = "(1)" Lie- ber, lie- ber Ap- fel, bist so sch�n und rund und die Mut- ter hat ge- sagt, �p- fel sind ge -- sund. } { \context LyricsVoice = "Soprano-2" \property LyricsVoice .stanza = "2:" \property LyricsVoice .stz = "(2)" Lie- ber, lie- ber Ap- fel, spring doch gleich vom Baum! Schau, ich halt die Sch�r- ze schon un- ten an dem Saum. } > \score { \simultaneous { \addlyrics \context Staff = mel { \melody } \context Lyrics \text } \midi { \tempo 4=120} \paper { papersize = "a4" } } Jan Nieuwenhuizen schrieb: > Alois Steindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>this week I tried the cygwin port of the new version 1.6.4 with a >>little song. Since the letters of the lyrics overlap each other, I >>assume that I have to set some flag to change the spacing rule (from >>note-length proportional to (maximum) word-width). Is there any >>flag for archieving sufficient space (except placing many breaks, >>which the yields very large space for long notes with short text)? > > >>\header { >>% title = "Der schlafende Apfel " >> tagline = " " >>} > > > This file should work fine, as long as you uncomment your paper > block: > > >> \midi { \tempo 4=120} >>% \paper { linewidth = 13.0 \cm } >>} > > > like so: > > \paper { linewidth = 13.0 \cm } > } > > I suspect that you have been looking at previous versions, because > the file you sent doesn't generate paper output. > > Jan. > _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user