On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 20:42:16 (-0600), David F. wrote:
>
> On Sep 8, 2016, at 8:52 AM, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > There's another "feature" of American hymn books illustrated on
> > http://www.hymnary.org/text/amazing_grace_how_sweet_the_sound#pagescans
> > which I haven't seen any mention of before, and only noticed recently
> > when thumbing my way through a hymnbook during a boring hymn.
> >
> > We're used to seeing lyrics left-aligned when under a melisma, but
> > centred under the note otherwise. However, some hymnbooks left-align
> > the first lyric on each printed line regardless.
> >
> > The second hymn from the left, which is a link to
> > http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/G32011/page/484
> > shows this. I don't want it, but can LP do this automatically?
>
> Ah, yes. It would be nice if Lilypond could be coaxed to do that.
>
> Also, I’ve noticed that hymnals will often place line breaks inside a measure
> when the song begins with a partial measure, such that subsequent lines also
> begin with the same partial measure. This typically also corresponds to the
> beginning of a poetic line.
>
> For example, in this attached version of Amazing Grace, I’d prefer the first
> line to include first two beats of bar 7 (corresponding to the word “me!” in
> the first verse).
>
> I know I can do this by hand, but it would be great if I could tell Lilypond
> to take an initial partial measure into account when breaking lines.
I do this a lot, and use the following, where this particular
hymn is rather unusual; 12 12 8 8 is rare, and we didn't want
to coerce a 6 6 6 6 4 4 4 4. (Time signatures not printed.)
breaks = {
s2. s1 s1 s2.
\bar "" \break
s2. s1 s1 s2.
\bar "" \break
s2. * 4
\bar "" \break
}
global = {
\key bf \major
\time 8/4
\partial 2.
s2.
s1 s1
\time 6/4
s1.
\time 8/4
s1 s1
\time 6/4
s1. s1.
\time 4/4
s1 s1 s1 s2.
\bar "|."
}
\score {
\transpose f f
\new GrandStaff <<
\new Staff <<
\breaks
{ \clef treble \global }
\new NullVoice = valign { \align }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto valign { \texti }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto valign { \textiii }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto valign { \textiv }
\new Voice { \voiceOne \soprano }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo \alto }
>>
\new Staff <<
{ \clef bass \global }
\new Voice { \voiceOne \tenor }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo \bass }
>>
>>
\layout { }
}
Usually, \breaks is a \repeat unfold N-1 { S } where
S might be s1 * 4 and N is the number of lines.
Cheers,
David.
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