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Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system
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Trevor Daniels |
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Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:30:13 +0100 |
David Rogers wrote Sunday, August 04, 2013 10:14 PM
> James Harkins <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I ran into the attached spacing problem while typesetting a lead
>> sheet. I can't make a minimal example right this second; will try in
>> the next couple of days.
>>
>> When a tied note has a lyric syllable, LP (2.16.1) left aligns the
>> syllable to the note, on the assumption that tied-to note column will
>> occupy horizontal space and give the syllable space to extend to the
>> right of the note under which it appears. Makes sense -- that's a good
>> refinement.
>>
>> However, the same thing happens at the end of a system, forcing the
>> note column far to the left of where I would expect it to appear.
>>
>> I searched the bug tracker but didn't see anything relevant.
>
>
> I may be a philistine, but to me it looks ideal the way it is in the jpg
> file. What improvement do you mean to make?
Me too. As a singer it looks exactly what I would expect. That's the
way all vocal music is laid out - with syllables left-aligned on tied
and slurred notes, wherever they appear.
Trevor
- Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, James Harkins, 2013/08/03
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, Phil Holmes, 2013/08/04
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, Eluze, 2013/08/04
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, David Rogers, 2013/08/04
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system,
Trevor Daniels <=
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, David Rogers, 2013/08/05
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, James Harkins, 2013/08/05
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, James Harkins, 2013/08/05
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, David Rogers, 2013/08/05
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, Carl Peterson, 2013/08/05
- Re: Maybe bug? Lyrics on a tied note at end of system, David Rogers, 2013/08/05