Hello,
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From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org
[lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org] on behalf of Andrew C.
Smith [andrewchristophersm...@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 June 2011 20:01
To: LilyPond User Group
Subject: Adding line breaks within lyrics
Hi everyone,
I'm writing a piece where the rhythms of the sung words are free, so a whole
phrase is attached to a single note. I'm putting my lyrics in " " for each
note, but they appear on one long line, when I actually want them wrapped to
the width of the bar. Is there a way to add a line break within the quoted
lyric, or to set the max width and tell lilypond to wrap the text?
\partI = \lyricmode {
...
\override LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic
\override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT
"world's chaos when we seek it water's drifting as slowly out tides toward land
twice daily"
...
}
later on,
<<
\voice
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "soprano" { \partI }
\violin
>>
Let me know if maybe there's a better way to do this. I'd like to keep it as
clean as possible, and also to be able to keep all my lyrics in one variable in
case I want to split up the file later. Thanks.
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I will start by saying that I have not done any setting using lyrics, so there
may be others out there who know better.
However after a quick look in the internals reference '3.1.63 LyricText'
It might be possible to use the 'text (markup)' option ( '#<procedure #f
(grob)' )
Is one of the options in the Notation Reference “Formatting text” ...
Scanning down you could perhaps use the '\wordwrap-string arg (string)' option?
I realise that probably isn't much help if you aren't comfortable with the
syntax for overrides, and I am not competent enough to use set Lyrics to give
you a 'quick and dirty' test, but it *might* be a way round this. Hopefully if
this is a way to use it someone can come up with a valid syntax. What I am
seeing though is that there would still need to be some 'arbitrary' line width
that you'd need to put in - i.e. I cannot see a way to say 'line-wdith = length
of measure' to create breaks easily.
But I hope this does help.
james
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