David, Now I see the point : if the two eighths were more distant, the extender would have to be displayed anyway - and this may depend on what other voices play during the first eighth, such a a large number of shorter notes.
JM > Le 29 août 2019 à 18:19, Jacques Menu <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> a écrit : > > Hello folks, > > Thanks to all for your help and comments. > > My use case is that of converting MusicXML to LilyPond, and I’ve learned in > this experience that: > - if the MusicXML data is of good quality, such as exported by GUI > scores editors, alignment of lyrics can be manual as musicxml2ly does; > - otherwise, such as when the data is obtained by scanning, one is much > better off re-creating the lyrics from scratch in automatic mode. > > A nice day! > > JM > >> Le 27 août 2019 à 18:52, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> a écrit : >> >> On Mon 26 Aug 2019 at 20:36:53 (+0200), Simon Albrecht wrote: >>> Hi Jacques, >>> >>> this doesn’t exactly answer your question, but I’ve always found that >>> manual alignment of lyrics is a huge pain to get working and thus >>> never use it… >> >> The only piece I've used them in was as an exercise in writing code >> that would generate a correctly notated score containing repeats, but >> would also generate correctly repeating MIDI output from the same code >> merely by adding \unfoldRepeats. I started a thread about the problem: >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-09/msg00499.html >> but I don't remember how the thread evolved, if at all. >> >> Suffice it to say, I don't make a habit of this, preferring to set the >> score and the MIDI separately. Attached is the code I came up with. >> To compile it properly, you'd need some library files. "Midi-satb.lily" >> is the boilerplate code to produce MIDI "teach tapes" for each part. >> The attached score used the unmangled source, with \unfoldRepeats >> commented out, and the libraries included of course. >> >>> On 26.08.19 17:39, Jacques Menu wrote: >>>> Hello folks, >>>> >>>> The more I read this chapter, and the more I feel it is a kind of >>>> imbroglio, mixing automatic and manual alignment of lyrics to the voice. >>>> >>>> Do you also feel this would merit a rewrite? >> >> (I'd have to read it in its new incarnation.) >> >> Cheers, >> David. >> <phyllis-mangled.ly><phyllis.pdf> > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
