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Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs
From: |
Evan Ross |
Subject: |
Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Feb 2011 17:09:13 +0000 (UTC) |
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Phil Holmes <mail <at> philholmes.net> writes:
>
> The alignment in that example is incredibly inconsistent - see as an
> alternative measure 6, where Mis is left aligned and face is pretty much
> centred. The alignment on this example is so variable that I suspect
> they've just got it wrong in measure 2. The examples I was able to find all
> align as recommended by Stone and implemented by LilyPond.
>
> As Xavier says, if there are specific places where you want to change the
> alignment, you can use:
>
> \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #LEFT
>
> which will change the alignment for the following word. However, I pretty
> much only ever set vocal music, and I certainly only ever read it and have
> never found it distracting that syllables from another voice have different
> alignment - I never look at them!
>
Well, barring the example being inconsistent, the point of my posting it is
to show what I want to see, not what I consider an example of brilliantly
and perfectly engraved music! :P
While I would prefer them to all be centered, this override will at least
make them uniform... Thanks! I still wonder if there's a way to do it how
I envisioned it originally...
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, (continued)
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Trevor Daniels, 2011/02/06
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Keith OHara, 2011/02/07
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Trevor Daniels, 2011/02/07
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Graham Percival, 2011/02/07
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Trevor Daniels, 2011/02/07
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Neil Puttock, 2011/02/07
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Evan Ross, 2011/02/07
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Trevor Daniels, 2011/02/07
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Evan Ross, 2011/02/07
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Keith OHara, 2011/02/07
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs,
Evan Ross <=
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Xavier Scheuer, 2011/02/05
- Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs, Evan Ross, 2011/02/05