Dave, Thanks for the quick reply. I have two other computers in the house that have Windows on them (I run a home-based computer support business), so I can use Sibelius on them if I have to...but I would rather switch to Lilypond. By the way, my download link didn't seem to transfer properly. The file is on my website: http://www.practicatechnical.com. Type that in the browser address field and add /files/flowers.pdf.
Frank. David Stocker wrote: > > As an aside, if you absolutely need Sibelius, I've had success running > Sibelius 2 on Ubuntu 8.04 under Wine. Making a .pdf might be tricky, but > I haven't fully investigated it. > > Good luck! > > Dave > > fzimmerman wrote: >> I've recently switched my main computer from Windows to Ubuntu Linux. >> Before >> this change, I was using Sibelius quite a bit for hymnbook work. I am >> contemplating a change to Lilypond, but before I invest large amounts of >> time learning it, I was just hoping that a few experts who have used the >> program for a while can tell me if it is possible to have absolute >> control >> over lyric spacing? >> >> With some of the hymns I worked on, an attempt was made to make every >> phrase >> fit into one line of music, so as to keep the hymn on one page. This >> involved really tight spacing control, especially when four or five lyric >> lines are involved. An excellent example of this can be seen in the >> following PDF, which I have tried to attach, and will also provide a >> download link: >> http://www.practicatechnical.com >> http://www.nabble.com/file/p21984523/flowers.pdf >> /files/flowers.pdf">flowers.pdf . >> >> If you take a look at this file, you will see that sometimes to obtain a >> good readable text layout, words or parts of words had to be moved to the >> left or right of the note they belonged to. At other times, hyphens were >> ommitted, so as to save space...this means the word must be spaceable >> under >> two notes. It requires quite a bit of control over spacing to achieve >> this. >> Sibelius allowed me to do this...can I do the same with Lilypond? >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > ----- > David Stocker > dstoc...@thenotesetter.com > www.thenotesetter.com > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Need-information-about-Lyric-spacing-in-Lilypond-tp21983959p21984523.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
