Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

2013-07-19 Thread markpolesky
On 2013/07/18 20:47:05, dak wrote: Folks, this is the reference manual, not obscure hacks for adventureous geeks. If we anticipate that a task is common enough to warrant an entry in the reference manual, it warrants a user interface. Fair enough. We might or might not want to cobble this

Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

2013-07-19 Thread Trevor Daniels
markpole...@gmail.com wrote Friday, July 19, 2013 7:10 AM On 2013/07/18 20:47:05, dak wrote: So what would be a nice and natural user interface, and what pieces are missing from it? \new Staff \with { printPartCombineTexts = ##f } \new HiddenVoice = voiceForLyrics \sopranoNotes

Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

2013-07-19 Thread dak
On 2013/07/19 06:10:17, Mark Polesky wrote: On 2013/07/18 20:47:05, dak wrote: Folks, this is the reference manual, not obscure hacks for adventureous geeks. If we anticipate that a task is common enough to warrant an entry in the reference manual, it warrants a user interface. Fair

Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

2013-07-19 Thread markpolesky
On 2013/07/19 08:27:20, dak wrote: Ok. Is the _output_ from the following what you'd consider appropriate? sopranoNotes = { c''2 d''4 e'' } altoNotes = { \repeat unfold 8 { a'16 g'16 } } words = \lyricmode { Oh my head } \new Staff \with { printPartCombineTexts = ##f \accepts Devnull

Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

2013-07-19 Thread dak
On 2013/07/19 09:42:54, Mark Polesky wrote: On 2013/07/19 08:27:20, dak wrote: Basically, the question is whether we can do something like NullVoice and get along without any engravers/properties in it. excellent, except there's an odd beam inconsistency in the last beat which I don't

Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

2013-07-19 Thread markpolesky
On 2013/07/19 10:48:43, dak wrote: To be clear, there are two separate effects I'd like to achieve with this one interface: 1) aligning lyrics to one of the two partcombined voices 2) aligning lyrics to a third (hidden) voice, without altering spacing It's more like 3) aligning

Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

2013-07-19 Thread dak
On 2013/07/19 19:35:13, Mark Polesky wrote: Is there no way to extract the averages of the NoteColumn X-positions between two voices? So given these voices: Please check out URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3232. Its original title was LilyPond should use strict

Formatting BarNumber

2013-07-19 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi, recently there was a thread about BarNumbers in ovals on the user-list http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Henle-piano-template-td148093.html (The markup-command oval is currently on review.) Researching more about how BarNumbers are formatted, I found that we currently have only one

Re: Issue 3457: Add snippet `Using \partcombine with lyrics'. (issue 11328043)

2013-07-19 Thread markpolesky
David, I've been playing around with your Devnull workaround, and it's great! An independent aligner voice works as long as there are NoteColumns in the printed voices that it can line up with, though this is still really useful. (I'm willing to put aside the averaging NoteColumn X-positions