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Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:29:37 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi hackers,
>
> I need your opinion on this to proceed with generalizing alignment
> stuff (https://codereview.appspot.com/7768043).
>
> What should be the the desired behaviour of "standalone" lyrics, i.e.
> lyrics that don't have associatedVoice set? If you look at this
> snippet (output attached),
>
> { c'2 c' d' d' }
> \addlyrics { foo bar la mmm }
>
> <<
> { c'2 c' d' d' }
> \new Lyrics { \lyricmode { foo2 bar la mmm } }
>>>
>
> you'll see that lyrics attached to notes (\addlyrics sets
> associatedVoice) are centered, while "independent" lyrics are
> left-aligned. I think that this behaviour is suboptimal - in my
> opinion it would be better if lyrics were centered in both cases.
> What are your opinions?
Without an associated voice, there is, with some likeliness, no longer a
strict per-note relation with lyrics. In this case, lyrics are likely
to _not_ be split into syllables. Typical use cases are songbooks
_without_ notes, consisting just of chords and words. Why use LilyPond
in the first place for that? Because it makes transposing easy.
I am not sure this is enough reason to make the default alignment with
and without \addlyrics different, but at least it should be reason
enough to make the alignment configurable in a very straightforward way.
--
David Kastrup
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- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, Thomas Morley, 2013/03/14
- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, Janek Warchoł, 2013/03/15
- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, Marc Hohl, 2013/03/15
- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, David Kastrup, 2013/03/15
- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, Janek Warchoł, 2013/03/15
- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, Marc Hohl, 2013/03/15
- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, Janek Warchoł, 2013/03/15
- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, David Kastrup, 2013/03/16
- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, Trevor Daniels, 2013/03/16
- Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed, David Kastrup, 2013/03/16