Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-29 Thread Jacques Menu
David, Now I see the point : if the two eighths were more distant, the extender would have to be displayed anyway - and this may depend on what other voices play during the first eighth, such a a large number of shorter notes. JM > Le 29 août 2019 à 18:19, Jacques Menu a écrit : > > Hello f

Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-29 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello folks, Thanks to all for your help and comments. My use case is that of converting MusicXML to LilyPond, and I’ve learned in this experience that: - if the MusicXML data is of good quality, such as exported by GUI scores editors, alignment of lyrics can be manual as musicxml2ly do

Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 Aug 2019 at 20:36:53 (+0200), Simon Albrecht wrote: > Hi Jacques, > > this doesn’t exactly answer your question, but I’ve always found that > manual alignment of lyrics is a huge pain to get working and thus > never use it… The only piece I've used them in was as an exercise in writing

Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue 27 Aug 2019 at 10:12:01 (+0200), Jacques Menu wrote: > Here is an MWE showing my problem. > > What I don’t understand is why and extra ‘_2’ is needed in lyricsManual to > obtain the same alignment as in the two automatic cases. > The snippet comes from Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes. > > %%%

Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-27 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-08-27 1:12 am, Jacques Menu wrote: Here is an MWE showing my problem. What I don’t understand is why and extra ‘_2’ is needed in lyricsManual to obtain the same alignment as in the two automatic cases. [ . . . ] It appears that you are trying to use both automatic and manual syllable

Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-27 Thread Jacques Menu
Here is an MWE showing my problem. What I don’t understand is why and extra ‘_2’ is needed in lyricsManual to obtain the same alignment as in the two automatic cases. The snippet comes from Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes. Thanks for your help! JM %%% \version "2.19.83" mu

Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-26 Thread Simon Albrecht
Hi Jacques, this doesn’t exactly answer your question, but I’ve always found that manual alignment of lyrics is a huge pain to get working and thus never use it… Best, Simon On 26.08.19 17:39, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello folks, The more I read this chapter, and the more I feel it is a kind o

Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-26 Thread David Kastrup
Jacques Menu writes: > For exemple, I only found by test and trial that to obtain the melisma to > include the upper half note: > > > > I had to add a ‘2’ to the last underscore after ‘pands’: > > \skip2 "Et"4 "tu"8 "ré"8 -- > "pands"8 __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _2 >"dans"4 "nos"8 "cli"8 -- > "mat

Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-26 Thread Jacques Menu
For exemple, I only found by test and trial that to obtain the melisma to include the upper half note: I had to add a ‘2’ to the last underscore after ‘pands’: \skip2 "Et"4 "tu"8 "ré"8 -- "pands"8 __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _2 "dans"4 "nos"8 "cli"8 -- "mats"1 __ _ > Le 26 août 2019 à 17:39, Jac

Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

2019-08-26 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello folks, The more I read this chapter, and the more I feel it is a kind of imbroglio, mixing automatic and manual alignment of lyrics to the voice. Do you also feel this would merit a rewrite? JM ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.