Re: Add prefix to lyrics

[Ralph Palmer]

Greetings -

This has been submitted as Issue #1255.

Ralph

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Alexander Kobel <address@hidden> wrote:

> [cross-posted from -user to bug-, see footnote]
>
> On 2010-09-02 13:51, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't this be easier? [...]
>> <<
>>   \relative { g'2 f }
>>   \addlyrics { \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #0.75 "Pro - phe"
>> -- tan }
>>
>>>
>>>>
> Well, yes, but it doesn't really give the expected output, since the
> LyricHyphen does not use the glyph of the LyricText font, but instead a
> custom line markup.
> I never managed to understand this rationale in the first place, and there
> even is a note in the sources to change this behaviour. [1]
>
> But for what is implemented now, I don't see how to do this without
> excessive ugly Scheme-hacking, like Neil proposed.  Once I also tried to
> exchange the LyricHyphen stencil to mimic LyricText, but to no avail -
> AFAICS, the alignment of the hyphens is more or less hard-coded in the C++
> part.
>
> @ Robert:
> In summary, I don't think there is an easier way. I might be wrong, though.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Alexander
>
>
> [1]
> lily/lyric-hyphen.cc: (line 555-556)
>  "TODO: should extract hyphen dimensions or hyphen glyph from the font."
>
> I could not find it in the bug tracker, though, thus my cross-post to the
> bug- list.
>
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