----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith OHara" <k-ohara5...@oco.net>
To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 7:08 AM
Subject: centering the new Lyrics
Dear engravers of lyrics,
The next version of LilyPond will handle empty spaces within lyrics
differently.
If we have some adjacent lines of lyrics, version 2.12 collapses any empty
sections, so the set of lines collapses to the minimum vertical height.
The new system by default preserves the space for the empty sections[*],
so that the lines remain consistently spaced. So far I have heard people
want to do two things:
(1) let interrupted lyrics collapse to a single line,
(2) perfectly center a line of lyrics between two staves.
The new system is very flexible, so we can do these things (attached). But
the new system is complicated, so I always forget and need to relearn how
to use it.
I want to make a new snippet(s), or a shortcut command(s). Do people
really want to do such things? What else? Is the attached .ly
self-explanatory?
--
Keith
note[*] except between one line of Lyrics attached to the next staff #UP
and another line attached to the next staff #DOWN. In this case LilyPond
tries to let the lyrics collapse, but there is a bug (issue 1309) that
sometimes prevents them from lining up perfectly.
I'd appreciate a snippet in the LSR to explain this.
--
Phil Holmes
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