On Sep 21, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>
> <m...@apollinemike.com>
> Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:31 PM
>
>> I'm working on a piece that uses a fair bit of spoken text.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions as to:
>>
>> (1) A better way to do this; and/or
>> (2) If there is no better way, how to fix the horizontal spacing problem
>> above?
>
> Mike, this might be an a more promising approach:
>
> <<
> \new Staff {
> \repeat unfold 20 \skip 4
> }
> \new Lyrics
> \with {
> \override VerticalAxisGroup
> #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing = #'((padding . -3))
> }
> \lyricmode {
> \skip 4 Attention4 K-Mart4 shoppers.4
> \skip 4 Today's4 Blue4 Light4
> special1*1/5 can1*1/5 be1*1/5 found1*1/5 in1*1/5
> aisle4 seven.4 \skip 2
> Aisle4 seven,4 K-Mart4 shoppers.4
> }
> \new Staff {
> \repeat unfold 40 a'8
> }
>>>
>
> But being able to space a spoken phrase evenly between
> two end points would be a welcome enhancement.
>
> Trevor
>
This works very well - thanks! I agree about you with the enhancement, but I'd
have to mull over how that'd work with horizontal spacing.
Cheers,
MS
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