Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2013-05-27 Thread Wolf Alight
Hello Here are some improvements that I did awhile ago. Maybe it's useful. Best regards Torulf \version "2.14.1" % % Definitions for vowel alignment % This code snippet have been sponsored by the Vadstena Sisters in Sweden % #(define vowel-set (list->char-set (string->list "AEIOUYÅÄÖaeiouyåäö"

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-22 Thread Wolf Alight
= #0 \override TextScript #'font-shape = #'italic \override TextScript #'font-series = #'bold } \context { \Lyrics \override LyricText #'X-offset = #center-on-vowel } } } \paper { indent = 0\cm right-margin = 2\cm line-width = 11.5\cm ra

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-19 Thread Wolf Alight
A great suggestion. To override was the way to go. So here it comes! My inner perfectionist only have one complaint: the note width has been hard coded and the value should be adjusted if non default notehead sizes are used. I haven't tested this a lot yet so maybe there are bugs. The code boiled

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-19 Thread Wolf Alight
Thank you Neil I found another way this time but I might need this in the future. /Tor 2010/2/17 Neil Puttock > On 17 February 2010 13:48, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > There is a markup interface for use with Scheme, that may make things > doable > > for you. You can read about it in section 6

Re: vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-17 Thread Wolf Alight
> > > You could do interpret-markup and get a stencil of an individual character, > then get its X-extent, I think. It would involve getting the 'text, then > going through the text elements one by one and creating a stencil. > > Hope this is helpful, > > Carl > > Thank you Carl for that needle in

vowel aligned lyrics - want to improve it

2010-02-15 Thread Wolf Alight
Hi Lilyponders I just wanted to improve the vowel alignment of the lyrics and a few days later I find myself diving deep into the Lilypond with fascination and...yes...some frustration. I want to improve the fine code by Carl Sorensen: http://old.nabble.com/Re:-Lyrics---align-first-wowel-of-a-sy