On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 09:29, Benjamin Bloomfield <bhb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, I should have explained that I have further things going on in my full > source code that remove the semibreves unless they are the first one or the > first in the system, and the hyphenations are given so that a reasonable > point can be chosen for the system breaks even if it's in the middle of a > word. I have everything working nicely except for the slight bit of extra > space between syllables. > > Sorry I forgot to mention why I have the hyphenation points marked, > because you're right, the solution you give is the obvious one if I didn't > need those hyphenation points for the possible line breaks. > > Thanks, > > *Benjamin Bloomfield* > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 6:02 PM Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> > wrote: > >> At 15:54 24/07/2019 -0400, you wrote: >> >I've been trying to totally get rid of the space >> >where a lyric hyphen might go, in cases where >> >that space is already very small, but I have not >> >been able to figure it out. Is there a way to >> >get rid of these spaces instead of having them >> >still present as empty space? I want the >> >syllables to be as close to each other as if they were a single syllable. >> >> If you don't want the space, don't put it in! If >> you want "Holy", enter "Holy", not "Ho -- ly". If >> you then want that word to fit one note, use "Holy_". Thus: >> Draw near, Lord, Holy_ Father,_ almighty__ and e -- ter -- nal God, >> with >> a'8 c1 c c c c c c \divisioMinima b8 a b \divisioMaior >> >> But isn't the way such music is usually set with >> a single semibreve for all the syllables that are chanted to it? >> Draw "near, Lord, Holy Father, almighty and e" -- ter -- nal God, >> a'8 c1 \divisioMinima b8 a b \divisioMaior >> >> Now all you probably have to do is to move the >> semibreve back to over the word "near," ... >> >> I trust this helps. >> >> Brian Barker - privately >> >> _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user It looks like all those semibreves, even if they are changed to a short length, want to take up room because they are a big symbol. If you remove all overrides to lyric hyphens, the syllables come together unless they are smaller than the breve symbol. Changing the X-extent of noteheads makes all the widths dependent on the syllables, but introduces further issues: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \version "2.19.81" \include "gregorian.ly" antiphonText = \lyricmode { Draw near, Lord, Ho -- ly Fa -- ther, al -- might -- y and e -- ter -- nal God, au -- thor of hu -- man dig -- ni -- ty and be -- stow -- er of all grac -- es, through whom all things pro -- gress, through whom eve -- ry -- thing is made firm, who, by the pow -- er of the Ho -- ly Spir -- it, in or -- der to form a priest -- ly peo -- ple, es -- tab -- lish a -- mong them min -- is -- ters of Christ your Son in var -- i -- ous or -- ders. } aSop = \transpose c c { %\revert LyricHyphen.minimum-distance \relative c' { \cadenzaOn a'8 \bar"" c\breve*1/1024 \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" \divisioMinima c\breve*1/1024 \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" b8 \bar"" a \bar"" b \bar"" \divisioMaior a8 \bar"" c\breve*1/1024 \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" b8 \bar"" a \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" \divisioMaior a8 \bar"" c\breve*1/1024 \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" \divisioMinima c\breve*1/1024 \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" b8 \bar"" a \bar"" b \bar"" \divisioMaior a8 \bar"" c\breve*1/1024 \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" c \bar"" b8 \bar"" a \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" \divisioMaior b\breve*1/1024 \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" a8 \bar"" b \bar"" c \bar"" b \bar"" \divisioMinima \break b\breve*1/1024 \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" b \bar"" g8 \bar"" a \bar"" b \bar"" a \bar"" a \bar"" \divisioMaxima \cadenzaOff } } \score { << \new Staff << \clef "treble" \new Voice = "sop" { \voiceOne \aSop } >> \new Lyrics \lyricsto sop \antiphonText >> \layout { \context { \Voice \override NoteHead.X-extent = #'(0 . 0) } \context { \Lyrics \override LyricText #'font-family = #'normal % \override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #1.0 % \override LyricHyphen #'minimum-length = #0.3 %\override LyricHyphen #'minimum-length = #1.5 %\override LyricHyphen #'padding = #0 } } } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Vaughan
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