Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Keith OHara
Evan Ross gmail.com> writes: > This is wonderful, thank you for all the help. There's still one more small > issue -- this appears to change the behavior of slurs, but not of phrasing > slurs, which remain left-aligned. Is there another property of the Lyric > context that causes this to happen?

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Evan Ross
Trevor Daniels treda.co.uk> writes: > > > > No, the positioning is OK, but in a layout block > you need to omit the "\set". > > Alternatively, with "\set", position it at the > start of the actual lyrics. > > Trevor > This is wonderful, thank you for all the help. There's still one more sm

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:43:27AM -, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Perhaps this should be documented. Apart from noting > that it must be set in the Lyrics context it seems > straightforward to use. Does anyone know of any > difficulty with it? No, but it wouldn't be hard to ask some users to

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
Evan Ross wrote Monday, February 07, 2011 5:04 PM Keith OHara oco.net> writes: I hesitate to mention it, but, there is a setting mentioned in the Internals Reference, under Lyric_engraver, that might do what you ask \set lyricMelismaAlignment = #CENTER This setting is not in the main doc

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Monday, February 07, 2011 1:37 PM On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:43:27AM -, Trevor Daniels wrote: Perhaps this should be documented. Apart from noting that it must be set in the Lyrics context it seems straightforward to use. Does anyone know of any difficulty with it

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Evan Ross
Phil Holmes philholmes.net> writes: > > The alignment in that example is incredibly inconsistent - see as an > alternative measure 6, where Mis is left aligned and face is pretty much > centred. The alignment on this example is so variable that I suspect > they've just got it wrong in measure

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Evan Ross
Keith OHara oco.net> writes: > > I hesitate to mention it, but, there is a setting mentioned in the >Internals > Reference, under Lyric_engraver, that might do what you ask > \set lyricMelismaAlignment = #CENTER > > This setting is not in the main documentation or the test suite, so it is >sa

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
Keith OHara wrote Monday, February 07, 2011 7:02 AM Evan Ross gmail.com> writes: Is there no way whatsoever to force a center alignment to the first note of a multi-note syllable? I hesitate to mention it, but, there is a setting mentioned in the Internals Reference, under Lyric_eng

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Trevor Daniels
Evan Ross wrote Sunday, February 06, 2011 4:27 PM I have an idea of what I want to see on the page, found one instance of that in this piece, and would like that to be the way my piece is set. And I find it difficult to believe given all the individual alterations one can do in lilypond tha

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Neil Puttock
On 7 February 2011 10:43, Trevor Daniels wrote: > Perhaps this should be documented.  Apart from noting > that it must be set in the Lyrics context it seems > straightforward to use.  Does anyone know of any > difficulty with it? It doesn't work with manual melismata (using underscores): \versi

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Keith OHara
Evan Ross gmail.com> writes: > > Is there no way whatsoever to force a center alignment to the first note of > a multi-note syllable? > I hesitate to mention it, but, there is a setting mentioned in the Internals Reference, under Lyric_engraver, that might do what you ask \set lyricMelismaAl

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-07 Thread Evan Ross
Trevor Daniels treda.co.uk> writes: > > It looks like the engraver intended to follow the standard placement > for lyrics in most places, but just got it wrong occasionally. > The most glaring example of this is in page 5, second system, > last bar. On the alto line both verses have the same wor

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Phil Holmes wrote "Evan Ross" wrote in message news:loom.20110205t233639-...@post.gmane.org... Phil Holmes philholmes.net> writes: Could you provide a scan illustrating this, please? It's apparently so common a thing that after randomly searching for madrigals, the very first one I came

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-06 Thread Phil Holmes
"Evan Ross" wrote in message news:loom.20110205t233639-...@post.gmane.org... Phil Holmes philholmes.net> writes: Could you provide a scan illustrating this, please? It's apparently so common a thing that after randomly searching for madrigals, the very first one I came up to demonstrat

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-05 Thread Evan Ross
Phil Holmes philholmes.net> writes: > > Could you provide a scan illustrating this, please? > It's apparently so common a thing that after randomly searching for madrigals, the very first one I came up to demonstrates this all over the place. See measure 2 for example. http://imslp.info/fil

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-05 Thread Evan Ross
Xavier Scheuer gmail.com> writes: > > On 5 February 2011 22:43, Evan Ross gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Is there no way to change this behaviour, though? Visually it's very distracting > > to have lyrics not aligned to one another among voices. > > You could "left-align" the lyrics. > > \layou

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-05 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 5 February 2011 22:43, Evan Ross wrote: > > Is there no way to change this behaviour, though? Visually it's very > distracting > to have lyrics not aligned to one another among voices. You could "left-align" the lyrics. \layout { \context { \Lyrics \override LyricText #'sel

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-05 Thread Phil Holmes
"Evan Ross" wrote in message news:loom.20110205t223923-...@post.gmane.org... Phil Holmes philholmes.net> writes: "Evan Ross" gmail.com> wrote in message news:loom.20110204T232556-506 post.gmane.org... >> I'm not top posting. > > %%Lyrics do not align among voices when one voice has a slur

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-05 Thread Evan Ross
Phil Holmes philholmes.net> writes: > > "Evan Ross" gmail.com> wrote in message > news:loom.20110204T232556-506 post.gmane.org... > >> I'm not top posting. > > > > %%Lyrics do not align among voices when one voice has a slur and another > > %doesn't. > > > > %%The problem persists even when u

Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-05 Thread Phil Holmes
"Evan Ross" wrote in message news:loom.20110204t232556-...@post.gmane.org... I'm not top posting. %%Lyrics do not align among voices when one voice has a slur and another %doesn't. %%The problem persists even when using a phrasing slur instead. %%I have not been able to find in any documenta

Lyric misalignment during slurs

2011-02-05 Thread Evan Ross
> I'm not top posting. %%Lyrics do not align among voices when one voice has a slur and another %doesn't. %%The problem persists even when using a phrasing slur instead. %%I have not been able to find in any documentation a way to align them %properly. \version "2.12.3" \paper{ ragged-right=