2017-05-05 2:58 GMT+02:00 pmtanx <pmt...@gmail.com>: > Hello! I am a relatively new Lilypond user and have been greatly enjoying the > program. I would appreciate the capability of creating dotted rather than > solid lyric extender lines, and am wondering whether this is possible (and > how to place a feature request if it is not). Looking through past posts, I > see that other users have made the same request, once in 2011 and again in > 2014 (links below).
A feature request about dotted or dashed LyricExtenders needs to be send to the bug-list. Although this feature was requested before, it never reached the buglist. > If it would help, I can provide several examples of > published works (especially hymnals) using dotted lyric extender lines. For > example, the image below is from the 1940 hymnal of the Episcopal Church. > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Philip > Charlottesville, VA > > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Extender-style-td33333.html > > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Filling-empty-space-in-inline-lyrics-with-dots-td154475.html#a161832 > > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n202917/IMG_20170504_204003353_HDR.jpg> Once 2.19.60 is released you could do something at the lines of: \version "2.19.60" dottedExtender = { \override LyricExtender.style = #'dashed-line \override LyricExtender.thickness = 2 \override LyricExtender.dash-fraction = 0 \override LyricExtender.stencil = #(lambda (grob) (let* ((stil (ly:lyric-extender::print grob)) (x-ext (ly:stencil-extent stil X))) (make-connected-line (list (cons (car x-ext) 0) (cons (cdr x-ext) 0)) grob))) } << \new Staff { c'2( d' e' f') g' } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "" { \dottedExtender foo __ bar } >> HTH, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
