Re: fine-tuning Lyrics size

2010-10-21 Thread James
hello, On 20/10/2010 22:10, Valentin Villenave wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Alexander Kobel wrote: You can use decimal values (well, actually every real value if you really want to), and the default 'font-size for Lyrics is 1, not 0 (as would be expected). { c'4 c' c' c' } \addly

Re: fine-tuning Lyrics size

2010-10-20 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Alexander Kobel wrote: > You can use decimal values (well, actually every real value if you really > want to), and the default 'font-size for Lyrics is 1, not 0 (as would be > expected). > { c'4 c' c' c' } > \addlyrics { Uh la la la } > \addlyrics { \override Lyri

Re: fine-tuning Lyrics size

2010-10-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> sorry if I misunderstood you - the solution just seems to obvious to > imagine that you could not have found it. You can use decimal > values (well, actually every real value if you really want to), and > the default 'font-size for Lyrics is 1, not 0 (as would be > expected). Doh, I've tried t

Re: fine-tuning Lyrics size

2010-10-20 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 2010-10-20 13:48, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Folks, using \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-1 to make the lyrics smaller is too coarse for me. Hi, Werner, sorry if I misunderstood you - the solution just seems to obvious to imagine that you could not have found it. You can use decimal

fine-tuning Lyrics size

2010-10-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Folks, using \override LyricText #'font-size = #'-1 to make the lyrics smaller is too coarse for me. In my particular case, there is both Italian lyrics and a German translation (using a cursive font shape), and I have to make the cursive text just a bit smaller. AFAIK, LilyPond converts

RE: Lyrics size

2004-03-07 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Include this in a Lyrics context: \override LyricText #'font-size = #-2 e.g. \lyricsto "Melody" \new Lyrics { \override LyricText #'font-size = #-2 \lyrics } Greetings, Bert ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: Lyrics size

2004-03-07 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You can only set properties within the current context (and the contexts higher up in the hierarchy). So, you can either keep the property setting where it is and say \override Score . LyricText ... instead, which means that the setting applies to all contexts within the Score. The other option is

Lyrics size

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas Scharkowski
Hi all, the following code works except "\override Lyrics .LyricText". Help please! Thank you, Thomas cygwin -- \version "2.1.26" \score { <<\context ChordNames \chords{ c2 g:7 } << \context Voice = "Melody" \notes { \override Lyric