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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: lyrics not quite lining up
From:       Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengtsson () s3 ! kth ! se>
Date:       2003-10-29 16:58:41
Message-ID: 3F9FF1C1.8040802 () s3 ! kth ! se
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Your mail program managed to destroy the attachment
(for some reason, the file was handled like a plain text
file, the content type should be application/pdf or
application/octet-stream).

Anyway, it seems that you didn't read all of
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyrics-bar.ly
namely that you should add the Bar_engraver to the LyricsVoice context
to avoid collisions with the bar lines. This is done with:

\score{
   ...
   \paper{
     \translator {
       \LyricsVoiceContext
       \consists "Bar_engraver"
     }
   }
}

     /Mats

Russ Ross wrote:
>>Russ Ross wrote:
>>
>>>I'm using Lilypond 2.0.1 and having trouble getting lyrics to line
>>>up properly.  They are finding the right notes, but they tend to be
>>>a bit off to the left or right.  They end up overlapping bar lines
>>>and melisma lines and they are a bit hard to follow in some places.
>>>Is this a setup error of some kind?  I'm using default options
>>>everywhere on a Mandrake 9.2 setup.  It's pretty consistent, so
>>>doing manual overrides seems overkill (it would have to happen on
>>>every lyric).
>>
>>Please send a small example file that illustrates the problems.
> 
> 
> I've attached one page of PDF output from a larger score.  Some of
> the problems go away when I try to extract it to a smaller example.
> Here's the relevant input for the first line of lyrics in the
> example (the initial skip finishes on the page I provided):
> 
> \context Lyrics = sopranoLyrics \lyrics {
> 
>   \skip1*12/8*16
>   Kommt,8*8 __ ihr8 Toch*2 -- ter,8 |
>   helft4 mir8 kla8*8 -- gen8 |
> 
>   ...
> 
> when I add the following:
> 
>   \property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'alignment = #-1
> 
> the first "Kommt," moves into the right place but it pushes the
> "ter," at the end of that measure even further into the barline.
> This also pushes "helft" in the next measure to the right making it
> look wrong.
> 
> The melisma after "Kommt," collides with the comma and the ends of
> measures overlap the barlines quite often.
> 
> This is pretty typical of what I'm seeing.  If you'd like more
> source input to go with it let me know.
> 
> 
>>Also, please take a look at the examples
>>http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyric-align.ly 
>>
>>and
>>http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyrics-bar.ly
>>to see if they give answer to some of your questions.
> 
> 
> That was helpful.  That's where I found the alignment property above
> (which helped) but I'm still not quite there.
> 
> <snip--still digesting the rest>
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Russ
> 




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