2017-11-05 19:29 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > >> On Sat 04 Nov 2017 at 02:10:53 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: >>> Jérôme Plût <plut.jer...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> > I tried applying the contents of >>> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-within-systems >>> > to move the figured bass a bit closer to the staff: >>> > >>> > \version "2.19.54" >>> > \score { { \new StaffGroup << >>> > \new Staff { \clef "F" c d e f } >>> > \new Lyrics \with { >>> > \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing = >>> > #'((basic-distance . 1) (stretchability . 0)) >>> > } \lyrics { "c"4 "d" "e" "f" } >>> > \new FiguredBass \with { >>> > \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing = >>> > #'((basic-distance . 1)) >>> > } \figures { <5>4 <5>4 <5> <5> } >>> >>> } \layout { indent = 0 \cm } >>> > >>> > Yet this stupid figured bass does not move, even if I input a >>> > ridiculously large value for 'basic-distance. >>> > >>> > What is happening? >>> >>> \lyrics is the same as \new Lyrics \lyricmode ... so your own \new >>> Lyrics is contentless. Same with \figures and \new FiguredBass >>> \figuremode ... >>> >>> I find that overriding the settings (both!) in the Lyrics context works >>> fine. >>> >>> Either use the \...mode constructs or use \lyrics \with { ... } ... and >>> \figures \with { ... } ... . >> >> \lyrics is new to me > > It's very thinly documented since it just confuses people. As you can > see. At one time it was entirely undocumented even I think. > >> so I thought I'd look it up. It took a while to find it in the NR as >> it's rather hidden away under §5.4 (and with no index entry). > > Intentionally I think. > >> I've yet to figure out the paragraph in changes.pdf starting >> "\lyricsto and \addLyrics have been harmonized." There seems to be >> quite a lot in it. (I assume \addLyrics there and on p290 of NR are >> typos.) > > I just came back from a conference where I had two talks about music > creation under GNU/Linux. So if nobody else can be bothered, trigger me > again in a few days.
https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5233/ Though, I didn't manage to upload patched 2.20-changes. Doing so from the stable-2-20 branch would include a wagonload of other changes. How to do so? >> But in the example on p142 of the LM, is that a mistake? I changed this for consistency reasons as well. >> Would I be right in thinking that >> words = \lyrics { the text } >> is a more expensive construction than >> words = \lyricmode { the text } > > The former is short for > > words = \new Lyrics \lyricmode { the text } > >> BTW is there a move towards \voice, \staff, \grandstaff, etc? > > I have no idea what you are even talking about here. > > -- > David Kastrup Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
