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Re: Need information about Lyric spacing in Lilypond
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fzimmerman |
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Re: Need information about Lyric spacing in Lilypond |
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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:40:23 -0800 (PST) |
Dave,
Thanks for the quick reply. I have two other computers in the house that
have Windows on them (I run a home-based computer support business), so I
can use Sibelius on them if I have to...but I would rather switch to
Lilypond. By the way, my download link didn't seem to transfer properly.
The file is on my website: http://www.practicatechnical.com. Type that in
the browser address field and add /files/flowers.pdf.
Frank.
David Stocker wrote:
>
> As an aside, if you absolutely need Sibelius, I've had success running
> Sibelius 2 on Ubuntu 8.04 under Wine. Making a .pdf might be tricky, but
> I haven't fully investigated it.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Dave
>
> fzimmerman wrote:
>> I've recently switched my main computer from Windows to Ubuntu Linux.
>> Before
>> this change, I was using Sibelius quite a bit for hymnbook work. I am
>> contemplating a change to Lilypond, but before I invest large amounts of
>> time learning it, I was just hoping that a few experts who have used the
>> program for a while can tell me if it is possible to have absolute
>> control
>> over lyric spacing?
>>
>> With some of the hymns I worked on, an attempt was made to make every
>> phrase
>> fit into one line of music, so as to keep the hymn on one page. This
>> involved really tight spacing control, especially when four or five lyric
>> lines are involved. An excellent example of this can be seen in the
>> following PDF, which I have tried to attach, and will also provide a
>> download link:
>> http://www.practicatechnical.com
>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p21984523/flowers.pdf
>> /files/flowers.pdf">flowers.pdf .
>>
>> If you take a look at this file, you will see that sometimes to obtain a
>> good readable text layout, words or parts of words had to be moved to the
>> left or right of the note they belonged to. At other times, hyphens were
>> ommitted, so as to save space...this means the word must be spaceable
>> under
>> two notes. It requires quite a bit of control over spacing to achieve
>> this.
>> Sibelius allowed me to do this...can I do the same with Lilypond?
>>
>
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