Re: still lyrics

[Glen Prideaux]

Han-Wen wrote:

> address@hidden writes:
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> > Han-Wen wrote:
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> > > > . Playing with the `alignment' property, I expect that text is
> > > >   always centered below the corresponding notes for value 0.  But it
> > > >   isn't in all cases!  Why not?  This looks like a bug.  See
> > > >   attached image.
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > .. for the moment I'm gladly leaving this to Glen who wrote the code.
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> > >      
> > It sounds like you're encountering the lyric-phrasing-engraver. This is 
> > intended to automatically adjust the alignment of lyrics of songs with 
> > multiple stanzas. It makes the first syllable of a phrase left aligned, 
> > and the last right aligned, detecting phrases by punctuation. If you 
> > don't want this, set the property Score.automaticPhrasing to false.
> >    
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> Stupid question, but can we detect this automaticall? I'd say that
> good behavior for single lyrics should be default. 
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I think it's just a matter of changing a comparison in syllable-group.cc 
so that set_lyric_align() does nothing unless a note has more than one 
lyric. I'll do some testing to confirm this works before I submit a patch.

Glen