Re: reciting text over line breaks

2017-11-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Nov 2017 at 09:43:04 (-0500), Benjamin Bloomfield wrote: > Yes, but I want to allow line breaks in the middle of those breves if it > makes sense for line breaks to occur there. This is actually the way I had > been doing it, but it is a tedious process of trial and error to figure out >

Re: reciting text over line breaks

2017-11-10 Thread Benjamin Bloomfield
Yes, but I want to allow line breaks in the middle of those breves if it makes sense for line breaks to occur there. This is actually the way I had been doing it, but it is a tedious process of trial and error to figure out that, e.g., the line should break after "and" in "always and everywhere",

Re: reciting text over line breaks

2017-11-10 Thread Michael Gerdau
Hi Benjamin, assuming you have your music in a varible called e.g. \music you simply put your verses like shown below and combine them as with any other score. That should give you the desired result. verse = \lyricmode { It \once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT "is truly right and

Re: reciting text over line breaks

2017-11-09 Thread Benjamin Bloomfield
Also, I am having difficulty preventing hyphens in the lyrics when using \hide NoteHead to hide the noteheads after the breves. Is there a way to force these lyrics to not use hyphens? Thanks, *Benjamin Bloomfield* On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Benjamin Bloomfield wrote: > Dear forum, I am