Hello Kieren, Thanks for the explanation, it’s clear now!
JM > Le 21 nov. 2015 à 15:25, Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> a > écrit : > > 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
