Re: do narrow and bold-narrow font-series exist? How can i squish Lyrics horizontally?

2011-01-13 Thread Robert Stoddard
gn"} a e' \break c4_\markup{ "A pseudo-lyric" } b a g f g_\markup{ \null \vspace #0.85 "now aligns"} a e' \break c4_\markup{ \concat { "A pseudo-lyric" \hspace #3 "re-aligned" }} b a g f g a e' } I hate the kludge required to eye-

Re: do narrow and bold-narrow font-series exist? How can i squish Lyrics horizontally?

2011-01-14 Thread Robert Stoddard
AH, very slick. Yes, that does the trick. Thank you! On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Jan WarchoĊ‚ < lemniskata.bernoulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/1/14 Robert Stoddard : > > The typesetting term for this is "kerning" -- modifying the space between > > le

Extender style

2011-01-23 Thread Robert Stoddard
Undoubtedly, this is a simple request for those who understand Scheme... How can I change the lyric extender from a solid line to a dotted one? Nothing in the LSR or manuals discusses this. Thanks, Robert www.bostonsing.org ___ lilypond-user mailing li

Re: Extender style

2011-01-26 Thread Robert Stoddard
*The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition (which is the dominant 4-shape tunebook) uses dots for extenders .. see the page at the link below. Not sure whether you all consider the Sacred Harp Publishing Company as a "reputable publisher", but for a chunk of your user base, it's the gold sta

Changing BarLine glyph per staff

2011-05-11 Thread Robert Stoddard
I am setting a piece in which different parts repeat at different points (because the repeated sections in each part are the same number of bars, this works out in the end...). I thought this was going to be straightforward using code like this: \version "2.13.61" staffChoir = \new ChoirStaff {

Re: Changing BarLine glyph per staff

2011-05-12 Thread Robert Stoddard
Thank you -- moving the Timing_translator and Default_bar_line_engraver from the Score to the Staff contexts worked perfectly. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:34 PM, -Eluze wrote: > > > Robert Stoddard wrote: > > > > I am setting a piece in which different parts repea