Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Hi Harm, > After > https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4685/ > has been pushed markup->string should have wider usability > > Thus I made a new version of the `align-to-melisma-engraver' using > string-comparison first, stencils as fall-back. > > Please test. I will! Thanks for this

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

2015-12-01 23:48 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > Hi Kieren, > > 2015-12-01 21:18 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : > [...] >> Continuing coding/thinking, >> Harm > > here the last version. Several comments inline. > The syllables are compared via the length of their stencil-extents. > Ofcourse this has disad

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Hi Kieren, 2015-12-01 21:18 GMT+01:00 Thomas Morley : [...] > Continuing coding/thinking, > Harm here the last version. Several comments inline. The syllables are compared via the length of their stencil-extents. Ofcourse this has disadvantages as said before and even some more. However, pleas

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Hi Kieren, 2015-12-01 16:13 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : >> The problem is how to test equality? >> For strings it's trivial > > Is that already implemented? No >> but LyricText also allows for markup. > > Is there a markup->string function? Yep, though look at the output of: #(write-me "mark

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Hi Harm, > Yes, parts of it works already. Look at the attached image. > In first bar the lyrics are aligned correctly I'd say. Agreed. > Though not in 3rd bar. "three" is offsetted as well, it shouldn’t. Agreed. > The problem is how to test equality? > For strings it's trivial Is that alread

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

2015-11-28 23:54 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi Thomas, > > Thanks for the detailed and helpful response! > >> If you want to attract me working on some of your most pressing >> issues, please write short, add a compilable code-example (no link) >> and give feed-back. > > I will make sure to do

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Kieren MacMillan writes: >> Maybe affecting 'self-alignment-X is the wrong method at all, >> instead I could probably set 'X-offset. > > Perhaps someone else [with a more encyclopedic knowledge of the > back-end] can weigh in on that. I am (and always have been) a little > confused by the differe

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

2015-11-28 23:54 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : > If this snippet achieves "production-ready” status, I'll try to reply more detailed, as soon as I find the time. Pretty busy with non-LilyPond tasks this weekend... Cheers, Harm ___ lilypond-user maili

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Hi Thomas, Thanks for the detailed and helpful response! > If you want to attract me working on some of your most pressing > issues, please write short, add a compilable code-example (no link) > and give feed-back. I will make sure to do that. Now as to your proposed solution… First, thank you

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

2015-11-26 14:58 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan : > Hi David, > >> It's not clear which issues you even mean > > Perhaps my post of a week ago > >> If you look at > >> you’ll see a list of other related issues. > > was not clear enough? If so, plea

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Hi David (and all developers), > So there may be something like $1000 I have personally offered $1,000. Others have offered to contribute to specific issues (look at the GSoC Lyrics issues in the tracker for more specific information), so there’s already more than $1,000 pledged to lyrics-relat

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Hi David, > It's not clear which issues you even mean Perhaps my post of a week ago > If you look at > you’ll see a list of other related issues. was not clear enough? If so, please explain how I can make it more explicit which issues I’m

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Hi David, > You'd likely be better served if you took the pain of actually > well-defining specific isolated tasks rather than hand-waving sums around. I’ve done so — outlining very explicit, specific isolated tasks — on several occasions. Didn’t seem to serve me then… but maybe it will the next

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Kieren MacMillan writes: > As I’ve said about a dozen times on this list, there are at least two > dozen lyric-related issues which, if fixed, would represent a quantum > leap in Lilypond’s output (and a huge reduction in my manual tweaking > effort/time). > > Unfortunately, it still appears nobo

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

Hi David, >> I know there is a way to have accidentals “cross-canceled” between staves in >> the same system. >> (I’ve used it… and it’s wonderful!) > > I don't; what is it? %%% SNIPPET BEGINS \version "2.19.31" \layout { \context { \Score \accidentalStyle modern } } staffA = {

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

David, On 26.11.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote: 1) If there's a lyric extender on a lyric which is being attached to a non-melisma note, ignore it. This would often save having four sets of SATB lyrics differing only in each ones placement of extenders. This is issue 4509

Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 12:01:44 (-0500), Kieren MacMillan wrote: > I know there is a way to have accidentals “cross-canceled” between staves in > the same system. > (I’ve used it… and it’s wonderful!) I don't; what is it? > Would it be similarly possible to have lyrics aligned between staves > w