Re: lyrics for right-left writing systems such as hebrew or arabic

2009-11-30 Thread Ted Walther
I'm having the same problem. I am mixing up Latin and Hebrew lettering in the lyrics, and I want them ALL to render strictly Left-to-Right. Is there any way to do this in Lilypond? You can see the problem it causes in this example: http://hymns.reactor-core.org/HaikVantoura/Shema4.pdf This

Re: lyrics for right-left writing systems such as hebrew or arabic

2009-04-20 Thread demery
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009, Richard Schoeller said: > One common approach when combining a right-to-left language with > left-to-right musical notation is to render each syllable of the lyrics > right-to-left but have the overall flow of the music left-to-right. I > haven't tried this with any of t

Re: lyrics for right-left writing systems such as hebrew or arabic

2009-04-19 Thread Richard Schoeller
One common approach when combining a right-to-left language with left-to-right musical notation is to render each syllable of the lyrics right-to-left but have the overall flow of the music left-to-right. I haven't tried this with any of the stuff that I've done (I present the lyrics in transl

lyrics for right-left writing systems such as hebrew or arabic

2009-04-17 Thread demery
Dumb question, some (perverse?) writing systems are contrary to western music notation, assuming we allow full unicode lyrics, how does one set hebrew or arabic lyrics to western music? Only way I can think of is to (have the user) transliterate phonetically into the roman alphabet, as in - hav