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Re: changing lyrics font-style to italics


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: changing lyrics font-style to italics
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:01:28 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Thomas <kontrapunktstefan@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear community,
> for certain reasons I would like to change the font-style of a Lyrics
> context to italic.
> I tried  it with
>     \override LyricText #'font-style = #'italic
> but without success.
> Does someone know how to do it?

You could start by not ignoring LilyPond's warnings.  There is no such
property as font-style .  You probably want font-shape instead.

Also you could try to update to 2.18 syntax and use

    \override LyricText.font-shape ...

-- 
David Kastrup



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