Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

On 2021-09-15 9:13 pm, David Wright wrote: As others have pointed out, you can line up hyphens with notes by setting them as actual lyrics, but bear in mind that real lyric hyphens have slightly different dimensions from those you insert by hand. (Real ones are typically longer, thinner, and

Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 18:43:06 (-0400), Kira Garvie wrote: > Actually, I had quite a few spelling errors, I am sorry! Verse two is > supposed to be arouse, so that is also a dash. Carl was right, the correct > term was a dash not a hyphen, and putting it in quotes with on: “on – ” > worked

Re: Old style bass clef

(re-adding mailing list for visibility...) On 2021-09-15 8:26 pm, Stanton Sanderson wrote: Unfortunately, no. With Lilypond 2.23.3, substituting \clef my-clef for \cleff bass in the code results in Frescobaldi’s Lilypond Log spitting out a list of supported types: warning: unknown clef type

Re: Old style bass clef

On 2021-09-15 6:49 pm, Stanton Sanderson wrote: I am trying to reproduce a manuscript which use an old style bass clef. A screen shot from > is shown below.The code apparently worked at one time, but fails when I

Old style bass clef

I am trying to reproduce a manuscript which use an old style bass clef. A screen shot from > is shown below.The code apparently worked at one time, but fails when I run it. %% <=

Re: Having problems with phrasing and ties combined

Knute Snortum writes: > -- > Knute Snortum > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 5:52 AM Paul Hodges wrote: > >> As an aside to that, I wonder if it would be worth while to restrict >> access to older manuals by Google. > > I doubt we'd be able to do that, but... A suitable robots.txt file should be

Re: Having problems with phrasing and ties combined

-- Knute Snortum On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 5:52 AM Paul Hodges wrote: > As an aside to that, I wonder if it would be worth while to restrict > access to older manuals by Google. I doubt we'd be able to do that, but... > A Google search (which I often use > to include other sources of

Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

On 9/15/21, 11:20 AM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Valentin Petzel" wrote: Hello Kira, The problem with this is that how well it works depends on the horizontal spacing of the system. I’ve attached a short example of how you can tell Lilypond to actually align the dash

Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

Hello Kira, The problem with this is that how well it works depends on the horizontal spacing of the system. I’ve attached a short example of how you can tell Lilypond to actually align the dash under the note. It involves setting melismaBusyProperties to make Ties not be handles as melisma in

Re: Having problems with phrasing and ties combined

Paul Hodges writes: > Thanks for the updates; I have places they will help! > > On simultaneous slurs, I guess that the identifiers were introduced in > 2.20, later than I've revisited that part of the manuals - the 2.18 > learning manual still states the prohibition. 2.19.29 for \= commit

Re: Having problems with phrasing and ties combined

Thanks for the updates; I have places they will help! On simultaneous slurs, I guess that the identifiers were introduced in 2.20, later than I've revisited that part of the manuals - the 2.18 learning manual still states the prohibition. As an aside to that, I wonder if it would be worth

Re: Having problems with phrasing and ties combined

Paul Hodges writes: > It's not causing your problem, but why use phrasing slurs: " \(" "\)? > Plain slurs: "(" ")" are that bit easier to write and read. They are, > as far as I know, identical in behaviour They aren't. They are typographically outward from normal slurs and are played

Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

Valentin, No, it didn’t work exactly, but it worked well enough that I am happy with it! On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 1:25 AM Valentin Petzel wrote: > Hello Kira, > > if you use "on –" then you are treating this as one syllable. So this way > Lilypond won't align the – under the tied note, if that

Re: Having problems with phrasing and ties combined

On 15/09/2021 00:05:33, "Carlos Martinez" wrote: > I just copied and pasted the same code into lilypond using Frescobaldi and got the error. The score does not renders…. OK, so the code itself is not the problem. This feels to me like an incompatibility between the LilyPond installation