Glen Prideaux wrote: > Han-Wen wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> >>> Han-Wen wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>> . Playing with the `alignment' property, I expect that text is >>>>> always centered below the corresponding notes for value 0. But it >>>>> isn't in all cases! Why not? This looks like a bug. See >>>>> attached image. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> .. for the moment I'm gladly leaving this to Glen who wrote the code. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> It sounds like you're encountering the lyric-phrasing-engraver. This >>> is intended to automatically adjust the alignment of lyrics of songs >>> with multiple stanzas. It makes the first syllable of a phrase left >>> aligned, and the last right aligned, detecting phrases by >>> punctuation. If you don't want this, set the property >>> Score.automaticPhrasing to false. >>> >> >> >> Stupid question, but can we detect this automaticall? I'd say that >> good behavior for single lyrics should be default. >> > I think it's just a matter of changing a comparison in > syllable-group.cc so that set_lyric_align() does nothing unless a note > has more than one lyric. I'll do some testing to confirm this works > before I submit a patch. > > Glen > > I'm having difficulty compiling the latest version of Lilypond ... most likely a snag in my GCC installation. I played with GCC version 3.1 a while back and this sometimes comes back to haunt me.
In any case, I don't have time at the moment to do battle with this, so I'm submitting the patch untested. I hope someone who is currently using Lilypond will be able to test it for me. Glen
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