Carl Peterson writes:
> As I mentioned in another thread, I'm working on a hymnal/psalter project
> and ideally would like to justify both the left and right edges of each
> line of lyrics. I'm willing to settle for the left edge, if the right edge
> is too cumbersome to do. I manually right-just
Hi,
2013/4/9 Carl Peterson :
> The best I can do for a sample at the moment is this PDF that is an
> advertisement for a hymnal that uses left-justified first syllables. It does
> not right-justify the last syllables.
>
> http://www.sumphoniahymnal.com/copy-content/hymnal-info-toc.pdf
Hmm. I see
Eduardo,
It's not so bad if you don't care where the system breaks are. For most
hymns, the default behavior does a decent job of producing output with a
reasonable density. The issue comes in if you want to lay your music out so
that the lyrics are laid out with the same line breaks as if they we
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:34:03 -0400
Subject: Re: Question about left-aligning syllables at beginning of lines
From: carlopeter...@gmail.com
To: janek.lilyp...@gmail.com
CC: lilypond-user@gnu.org
The best I can do for a sample at the moment is this PDF that is an
advertisement for a hymnal
The best I can do for a sample at the moment is this PDF that is an
advertisement for a hymnal that uses left-justified first syllables. It
does not right-justify the last syllables.
http://www.sumphoniahymnal.com/copy-content/hymnal-info-toc.pdf
This hymnal does something else I wouldn't mind be
2013/4/9 Carl Peterson :
> As I mentioned in another thread, I'm working on a hymnal/psalter project
> and ideally would like to justify both the left and right edges of each line
> of lyrics.
Interesting. I don't quite see why you would want that - i'd have to
see a picture.
Anyway, i'm pretty s
As I mentioned in another thread, I'm working on a hymnal/psalter project
and ideally would like to justify both the left and right edges of each
line of lyrics. I'm willing to settle for the left edge, if the right edge
is too cumbersome to do. I manually right-justified the last syllables on
one
2013/4/9 Carl Peterson :
> I know this question has been posed before on this list, but either there
> wasn't a definitive answer that I could find or I just couldn't understand
> it. I know that I can manually trigger left-aligning syllables at the
> beginning of lines, using
>
> \once \override L
I know this question has been posed before on this list, but either there
wasn't a definitive answer that I could find or I just couldn't understand
it. I know that I can manually trigger left-aligning syllables at the
beginning of lines, using
\once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT
