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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Midi lyrics
From:       Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengtsson () ee ! kth ! se>
Date:       2006-08-28 20:48:26
Message-ID: 44F3569A.2030006 () ee ! kth ! se
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Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> For the spaces, this clearly seems like a feature that LilyPond
> should handle automatically and that probably is very easy
> to implement. If you don't want to do the implementation
> yourself, you might want to sponsor that feature, see
> information at www.lilypond.org.
> For CR/LF, I'm not sure if there is any information
> in the current .ly file syntax that can be used to determine
> where the phrases end. However, it's easy to manually include
> a LF at the end of a syllable, just specify it as \n:
> \lyricmode{ Here comes a LF\n }


Correction, it seems that you have to enclose the syllable in
double quotes:
\lyricmode{ Here comes a "LF\n" }

You can also add spaces manually at the end syllables,
that will show up in the MIDI output but not affect the
printed output:
\lyricmode{ Here_ comes_ a_ "LF\n" }

   /Mats




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