Re: Frustrated with Chant Notation -- Convert-ly or Lily4jEdit plugin bug?

2006-12-29 Thread Geoff Horton

I finally figured out that the only way to represent chant lyrics is to
associate the first syllable and last syllable with their own notes then
quote the text in between so it centers under the breve. This is the only
way to force all of the lyrics to center under its own measure.


Actually, it isn't, at least if I understand correctly what you want.

I use this to left-align a note under its syllable:

   \once \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #-1  "today he is
born, the Savior"

I think you can change that #-1 to #0 to force center-alignment.

Geoff


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Re: Frustrated with Chant Notation -- Convert-ly or Lily4jEdit plugin bug?

2006-12-29 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Using the latest version of the lily4jedit plugin (2.10.2, released 
today) and lilypond 2.10.5 I can convert-ly "c:\temp temp\asdf.ly"


Bert

Paul Harouff írta:
I've been using Lilypond for the past week and just installed 
Lily4jEdit. I am transcribing a complete Eastern Orthodox Christmas 
Vigil church service from Russian Znamenny Chant to English and am 
extremely frustrated at how hard it is to troubleshoot command errors. 
It's taken me 4 days to get only 3 hymns done because all the 
undocumented tweaks that I've had to search for. It took me 4 hours 
just to figure out how to turn off the time signature. I'm still 
having trouble with text running off the page or getting centered in 
the margins instead of over or under the score.
 
I finally figured out that the only way to represent chant lyrics is 
to associate the first syllable and last syllable with their own notes 
then quote the text in between so it centers under the breve. This is 
the only way to force all of the lyrics to center under its 
own measure. Unfortunately, the justification is less than desirable 
because the quoted text is not padded, but it's readable.
 
I was expecting to have the whole service completed while I was on 
vacation this week. I've been having to compile after every measure to 
catch my errors in phrasing the English to the Russian melody. I'm 
hoping that using jEdit will help speed up the process, if I can 
figure out how to get the hyperlinks between the console and pdf 
windows working.
 
Anyway ... the bug:
 
My very first attempted procedure using the jEdit plugin was to update 
my file from 2.9.17 to 2.11.2.
 
I noticed that Convert-ly will not accept path names with spaces. I 
don't know if this bug is already reported or if the problem is the 
plugin is not passing the filename to Convert-ly with the path quoted 
properly. I had to map a drive letter to the folder where the file is 
located and remove spaces from the filename before the update would 
process.
 
Paul



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Frustrated with Chant Notation -- Convert-ly or Lily4jEdit plugin bug?

2006-12-29 Thread Paul Harouff
I've been using Lilypond for the past week and just installed Lily4jEdit. I
am transcribing a complete Eastern Orthodox Christmas Vigil church service
from Russian Znamenny Chant to English and am extremely frustrated at how
hard it is to troubleshoot command errors. It's taken me 4 days to get only
3 hymns done because all the undocumented tweaks that I've had to search
for. It took me 4 hours just to figure out how to turn off the time
signature. I'm still having trouble with text running off the page or
getting centered in the margins instead of over or under the score. 
 
I finally figured out that the only way to represent chant lyrics is to
associate the first syllable and last syllable with their own notes then
quote the text in between so it centers under the breve. This is the only
way to force all of the lyrics to center under its own measure.
Unfortunately, the justification is less than desirable because the quoted
text is not padded, but it's readable.
 
I was expecting to have the whole service completed while I was on vacation
this week. I've been having to compile after every measure to catch my
errors in phrasing the English to the Russian melody. I'm hoping that using
jEdit will help speed up the process, if I can figure out how to get the
hyperlinks between the console and pdf windows working.
 
Anyway ... the bug:
 
My very first attempted procedure using the jEdit plugin was to update my
file from 2.9.17 to 2.11.2.
 
I noticed that Convert-ly will not accept path names with spaces. I don't
know if this bug is already reported or if the problem is the plugin is not
passing the filename to Convert-ly with the path quoted properly. I had to
map a drive letter to the folder where the file is located and remove spaces
from the filename before the update would process.
 
Paul
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