On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Ah! Another one in desperate need for text continuation rules! :-) > > > > I fiddled around with the TeX output produced by lilypond and managed to > > display those rules (using \vrule and a defined horizontal length). So > > in order to integrate this into lily - is there any way to know about the > > *length* of the rule while processing the lyrics (the rule should > > completely fill the hbox of that lyric request)?? > > > > yes, but it is slightly hairy. Of course putting out a vrule is no > problem. I am uneducated as to when continuation rules have to be > printed exactly. Can anyone explain? I also remember that alignment > has to be adjusted. Although a bit late, perhaps helpful: Such a rule is to be displayed at each melisma, i.e. more than one note belonging to the same syllable, unless this syllable is not the last one of a word (in this case hyphenation takes place instead). The rule's left end is aligned with the right end of the belonging syllable, with a bit white space in between. Note that punctuation characters immediately following the syllable are still attached to the syllable's end (e.g. "he said:____" and not "he said____:"). The right end of the rule is aligned with the right edge of the last notehead of the melisma. The rule can be omitted if the syllable is as wide or even wider than the note sequence of the melisma. Concerning the syllable alignment, it is good style to have it flush-left with the first melisma note (i.e. both the notes and the syllable of the melisma begin at the same horizontal position and extend to the right) instead of centering it under any note. Regards, Rainer
