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From: | Matthew Fong |
Subject: | Setting Gregorian chant: Note spacing for two note neumes seem to depend on length of lyric text |
Date: | Sun, 4 Oct 2020 13:46:12 -0700 |
Hello LilyPonders,
I am setting Gregorian chant in modern notation, using rhw example from the LilyPond online documentation on transcribing Gregorian chant located athttp://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/working-with-ancient-music_002d_002dscenarios-and-solutions
I have two questions
1/ For the two note neumes, it appears the not their spacing is dependent upon the length of the lyric text below (easily seen in the tie length)
2/ For these multi-note (melismatic) neumes, is it possible to center the lyric text below, like the single note neumes? \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #CENTER does not seem to do the trick.
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Question 1:
a/ PDF: 1-With_neither_Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent_nor_BarLine.X-extent.pdf
With neither \override Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent nor \override BarLine.X-extent (lines commented out).
See note spacing above lyrics in the first stanza "things", and in the second stanza "grace", "health", "warmth". I prefer the noise spacing of the "of."
b/ PDF: 2-With_only_Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent.pdf
Only \override Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent is uncommented.
If I take the suggestion in the documentation "to avoid that syllables of different width (such as “-ri” and “-rum”) spread the syllable note groups unevenly apart, the 'X-extent property of the LyricText object may be set to a fixed value," this results in the *consistent* note spacing I am looking for, but lyrics text collides with each other; it seems text spacing is worse than before.
c/ PDF: 3-With_both_Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent_and_BarLine.X-extent.pdf
Both \override Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent and override BarLine.X-extent (lines uncommented).
If I uncomment \override BarLine.X-extent, the hyphenation is no longer centered the words, lyrics overlap, and there is some tight lyric spacing.
Note: I have tried promotional spacing, without much success. Hyphenation looks funny.
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/proportional-notation
\override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1/32)
\override SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1/32)
\override SpacingSpanner.uniform-stretching = ##t
\override SpacingSpanner.strict-note-spacing = ##t
1-With_neither_Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent_nor_BarLine.X-extent.pdf
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2-With_only_Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent.pdf
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3-With_both_Lyrics.LyricText.X-extent_and_BarLine.X-extent.pdf
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