Thanks a lot everyone for those smart responses. I've been reading and re-reading the thread multiple times ;-)
Must say, reading let stand writing code like this for such an easy part is not that easy for a beginner I'm afraid... Best regards! Jurgen L. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Albrecht" <simon.albre...@mail.de> To: "David Wright" <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> Cc: "jurgen lamsens" <jurgen.lams...@telenet.be>, lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:06:29 PM Subject: Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics) On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote: > However, I just wanted to observe two things about the OP's original: > the words are much smaller, and the first three bars look as though > they are using proportional spacing. No, they don’t. Proportional spacing is a very specific means for complicated situations in mostly ‘modern’ music, and what the example shows is just unnecessary loose spacing, less proficient by far than LilyPond’s solution. > One of the things that I've noticed about LP is that by default the > lyrics are scaled up in size relative to the music, compared with many > publishers' scores, which can lead to a more irregular note spacing. > This isn't a criticism: it's easily "correctable" but I much prefer it > anyway because of my eyesight. And legibility is the exact reason why LilyPond’s lyrics are larger than commonly used nowadays. > Mind you, I'm not sure why a beginner's piano book has lyrics at all, > particularly placing them between the staves. In order to make the connection to a tune the child knows, or to teach the actual song to sing it as well; also, thinking text is a good means to achieve more musical playing. Yours, Simon _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
