Re: Automatic lyric colouring

2016-12-11 Thread Jack Mackenzie
I've been using this for a while now and sometimes the lyrics are randomly coloured black instead of being associated with the note colour. I've tried to find a pattern to it but there doesn't seem to be one. Anyone have any ideas? On 27 November 2016 at 16:42, Jack Mackenzie wrot

Re: Automatic lyric colouring

2016-11-27 Thread Jack Mackenzie
Wonderful! Works perfectly. Thank you very much. On 27 November 2016 at 13:26, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2016-11-27 2:40 GMT+01:00 Jack Mackenzie : > > I'm trying to put together an engraver for educational purposes, with > > noteheads coloured according to a particula

Re: Automatic lyric colouring

2016-11-26 Thread Jack Mackenzie
I worried that it might involve Scheme. I should certainly investigate it but I'm already extremely out of my depth! The material is simple but as I'm planning on compiling between 100-200 songs using up to 5 notes (for Kodaly/Orff-style music programmes), if the lyrics idea could work, I'd like to

Re: Automatic lyric colouring

2016-11-26 Thread Jack Mackenzie
Take this song for example: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cu34bCPytiY/T4ZD9tR7CrI/FBE/gytZgtL4qTc/s1600/See+Saw+Up+And+Down+-+G.bmp I would want all the d notes one colour, and their lyrics the same colour, and all the b notes and their lyrics a different colour. This is for very young child

Automatic lyric colouring

2016-11-26 Thread Jack Mackenzie
I'm trying to put together an engraver for educational purposes, with noteheads coloured according to a particular scheme, and lyrics following this colouring. I've used the snippet for notehead colouring successfully ( http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=572), using "\override NoteHead.color =