Hi Mats, I tried much of this but with limited results so far, it could be that with some more experimenting I may succeed. \r and \l withelatex are supposed to do that but in lyrics they so far seem to be ignored...
I hope that once I understand how everything works I will be able to come up with some additional steps, and I will correct the wrapper file as well Thanks, Aaron On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 14:28, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > I don't really know anything about how the Hebrew support in > eLaTeX is implemented. What I know is that Lilypond uses low-level > font selection commands like > \font\myfont=jerus10 \myfont > when typesetting the lyrics. > > Regarding the backwords notation, I can think of two main solutions > (again not knowing anything about the Hebrew support): > > - Let Lilypond just change the font and write the syllables > backwards by hand. This should probably work without any extra > LaTeX package for Hebrew and with ordinary LaTeX instead of eLaTeX, > but you probably want such a package anyway for the titling. > > - Use some LaTeX package that lets you insert Hebrew quotes in > a document that mainly is written with latin letters. Let's say > that the corresponding command is \hebrew{...}. Then you could > typeset your lyrics using > lyrics = \lyrics{"\\hebrew{first syllable}" "\\hebrew{second syllable}" } > Of course, this is a bit clumsy and ruins Lilypond's ability to > calculate the length of each syllable when it determines the note > spacing. However, it should be fairly easy for som Scheme hacker > on the Lilypond list to make a small hack that automatically adds > the \hebrew{...} around each syllable, once you have made it work. > > > The problem you experience with notation written backwards indicates > that you use a LaTeX package that by default writes everything as > Hebrew. What you need is Latin text (or at least left to right text) > as the default and a possibility to switch to Hebrew on demand. > > /Mats > > Aaron wrote: > > Well, you are welcome, > > but I just copied it from a letter on cyrillic fonts. > > > > but if it helped I am happy. > > > > On the hebrew side I have a stickier problem. > > > > When I run my example through lilypond-book it treats all text as > > hebrew. > > > > I need a way to make sure that just the lyrics are processed as hebrew. > > > > Additionally. > > The use of hebrew itself is problematic: > > hebrew is right to left and english is left to right, but hebrew lyrics > > are left to right globally and right to left locally: > > > > As follows: > > this is english -> -> abc abc starts from the left > > <- <- hebrew is this cba cba starts from the right > > > > lyrics start from the left, but each syllable are read > > from the right. > > > > ------------------------ > > the problem I am having is how to get everything both the notation and > > the lyrics to start from the left!!! Think about it a second when I tell > > latex to use hebrew it makes everything go from right to left even the > > notation!!! > > I have dvi's with hebrew and the notation backwards.... > > > > Any thoughts??? > > Aaron > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 01:12, Warren Stickney wrote: > > > >>My Lyrics problem is now solved. > >> > >>Thanks, Aaron, for the correct command and structure as in your message on > >>hebrew lyrics. > >> > >>I have so much to learn. > >> > >> > >>Warren Stickney > >>Wellington, > >>New Zealand > >>E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Lilypond-user mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Lilypond-user mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user