Re: Horizontal line between hymn verses

2021-10-09 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Kira, I’ve found that this version messes up Stanza Number alignment between above and blow the line. This different approach fixes that. Cheers, Valentin%%% MIGHT AS WELL PUT THIS INTO AN INCLUDE FILE #(define dashlength 10) #(define dashindent 2) #(define dashthickness 0.17) lineSep = #

Re: Horizontal line between hymn verses

2021-10-09 Thread Valentin Petzel
I’ve also corrected the syntax of Lyrics (it is \new Lyrics \lyricsto ..., not \lyricsto ... \new Lyrics).%%% MIGHT AS WELL PUT THIS INTO AN INCLUDE FILE #(define dashlength 10) #(define dashindent 2) #(define dashthickness 0.17) \layout { \context { \type "Engraver_group" \name "LineSe

Re: Horizontal line between hymn verses

2021-10-09 Thread Kira Garvie
I am attaching the template of what I work with, because I am not exactly sure where to insert either of those fixes... Sorry for being such a newbie! On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 5:00 AM Valentin Petzel wrote: > Hello Kira, > > Aarons version uses the stencil of the stanza number, which means that it

Re: Manipulating lyrics with a music function

2021-10-09 Thread David F.
On Oct 8, 2021, at 10:33 PM, Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2021-10-08 8:24 pm, David F. wrote: >> macOS 10.14.6, Lilypond 2.22.1 >> The syntax for adding quotes to lyrics is a little cluttered, so I >> thought I’d whip up a couple of little helper functions to tidy things >> up. Two hours later I’m r

Re: Mandatory dashes in lyrics

2021-10-09 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 09/10/2021 à 16:55, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit : Folks, especially those of French tongue, how should one deal with a word like "entends-tu" in Lyrics? {   c'8 8 8 } \addlyrics {   En -- tends-tu } If I am not mistaken, the dash (is it one?) between "tends" and "tu" is mandatory, and it

Mandatory dashes in lyrics

2021-10-09 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Folks, especially those of French tongue, how should one deal with a word like "entends-tu" in Lyrics? {   c'8 8 8 } \addlyrics {   En -- tends-tu } If I am not mistaken, the dash (is it one?) between "tends" and "tu" is mandatory, and it should probably be centered between those to syllables