Hi again François,
there two limiting factors to my answer: 1) I did not write many
gregorian chants and 2) Lilypond has some limitations in this area.
But there are a few things I know how to improve and I have a few
questions for you:
Is it a convention in gregorian chants to have the hyphens left aligned
to the previous syllable (output: Ro- ra- te) and not centered like it
is usually done in LilyPond (output: Ro - ra - te)? Or is it just a
shortcoming of many programs that they can not handle lyric hyphens in
such a way? In the example below, I used the LilyPond default way to
separate syllables: Ro -- ra -- te (output: Ro - ra - te).
> I am not happy with the first b-flat (too close to the flexus),
I don’t know any systematic help. The override fixes it in this case.
> the episema (too close to the flexa, maybe the ictus, too far from note.
Again, an override can move it.
> And about usage:
> in the sanctus example mentionned above, the hyphens are simple and
> lily interprets them as: "jump to the next neuma"
> In my example it seems to be a "wait to the next note" but the hyphens
> I had to insert are colliding with the text.
The hyphens you used are just text as any other text so you could also
space the notes with A’s or .’s – what you want is to skip a note using
a _ in your file (see the example below).
\version "2.18.2"
\paper {
ragged-right = ##t
}
\include "gregorian.ly"
\score {
<<
\new VaticanaVoice = "cantus" {
\override Lyrics.LyricHyphen #'minimum-X-extent = #'( 2 . 2)
\clef "vaticana-do3"
f
\[ g \pes a \]
\once\override Script.extra-offset = #'(0 . 0.9)
a\ictus
d' c'
\[ c'
\once\override Accidental.extra-offset = #'(-0.3 . 0)
\flexa bes \]
a
\once \override Episema.extra-offset = #'(0 . 0.2)
\[ a \episemInitium \flexa g \episemFinis \]
\divisioMaior
s a bes a
\[ g \flexa f \] e
\[ f \flexa e \] \augmentum d
\finalis
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "cantus" {
%% Use the next line to force hyphens:
\override Lyrics.LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = 0.7
Ro -- ra -- _ te coe -- li de -- _ su -- per _
et nu -- bes plu -- _ ant Jus -- _ tum.
}
>>
}
Cheers,
Joram
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