I have a bunch of questions that arose while setting a song. I've put up the ly and pdf (run through Lilypond 2.6.4) at http://www.blahedo.org/ly/comfort.ly http://www.blahedo.org/ly/comfort.pdf
1) Is there any way to make the stanza numbers line up? Virtually every time I've done stanza numbers, they've looked like this, sometimes worse (overprinting the start of the line). 2) I've noticed lyrics misalignments before, but they seem worse recently; this piece is a good example. Actually, as I look at it I think the lyrics syllables are horizontally centred with each other, but left-aligned with the note head. That's not how I thought it was supposed to work (and it doesn't look very good).... 3) The metadata permitted in \header seems ill-suited for a lot of the stuff I'm typing in (old churchy stuff, mostly). There is a slot for "texttranslator", according to the manual, but this is not printed; there is nothing for the name of the tune (often distinct from the name of the text), which is often printed in small caps. In other pieces, there's often notation on scriptural source (which is further distinct from the lyricist ie "poet") or chant mode or multiple lyricists for different verses. Which is not to say that lilypond should natively support all of this, but it would be nice to have an "otherLyricMetadata" and "otherMusicMetadata" or two. -- -=-Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]<http://www.blahedo.org/>-=- By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
