Hi Jacques, > why is it that you have to struggle with the edition-engraver so much?
I wouldn’t say I struggle *with* the edition-engraver (though it could be made easier to work with, I suppose…). I would say I *use* the edition-engraver to struggle with *Lilypond* (i.e., her faults and defaults). Consider the output from this snippet (cf. <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-11/msg00400.html>): %%%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.19.30" \language "english" #(set-global-staff-size 15.5) \paper { ragged-right = ##f indent = 0 } global = { \key g \major \time 3/2 s1. } theNotes = { <d' d''>8 <fs' fs''> <e' e''> <e' e''>] <d' d''> q <b b'> <fs' fs''> <e' e''> q <d' d''> q | % } theLyrics = \lyricmode { ez, Ron -- sard me cé -- lé -- brait, du temps que j'ét -- ais } theScore = << \new Staff \new Voice << \global \theNotes >> \addlyrics \theLyrics >> \bookpart { \paper { line-width = 6\in } \score { \theScore } } \bookpart { \paper { line-width = 3\in } \score { \theScore } } %%%% SNIPPET ENDS As you can see, the default behaviour under normal spacing (i.e., page 2) is not publication-ready. I need to use the edition-engraver to fix problems such as this. (Well, it could also be done “in-line”, but what a content-presentation and maintenance nightmare that would be! Thank goodness for the edition-engraver…) As I indicated, this exact problem [of the notes being wildly uneven, due to lyrics which can easily be nudged to avoid all unevenness] happens in essentially every measure of all vocal music which is reasonably (i.e., not extremely-widely) spaced. Many times, fortunately, the spacing is such (i.e., wide enough) that the resulting unevenness falls below a certain threshold, and I don’t have to spend any time on it; often the unevenness can be eliminated by simply nudging a single LyricText to the left or right (usually using ‘self-alignment-X’), so it’s only a matter of thirty seconds’ work per lyric tweak (though in very large scores, recompiling times can be in the minutes, which makes such tweaks less cost-effective); in “extreme” cases like the one in the above snippet, it requires dozens (or more) “trial-and-error” tweaks to get the spacing to be publication-ready, and the time required really adds up. And this [unevenness] is only one Lyric-related issue that I use the edition-engraver to overcome. I hope this clarifies my struggle. Best regards, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
