Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-17 Thread Eluze
Matthew Collett wrote Changing my definition of \responsum to responsum = \lyricmode { \once \override LyricText #'extra-offset = #'(2 . 0) \markup{ \bold \fontsize #-1 ℟. } } does the job nicely, thank you. since version 2.17.4 you have to explicitly define the responsum in \lyricmode -

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-17 Thread David Kastrup
Eluze elu...@gmail.com writes: Matthew Collett wrote Changing my definition of \responsum to responsum = \lyricmode { \once \override LyricText #'extra-offset = #'(2 . 0) \markup{ \bold \fontsize #-1 ℟. } } does the job nicely, thank you. since version 2.17.4 you have to explicitly

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Eluze elu...@gmail.com writes: Matthew Collett wrote Adding e.g. \hspace #8 before the lyric \responsum does not move it much to the right; mostly it just makes the rest of the line bunch up more. Adding e.g. \tweak #'Y-offset #-8 before \mark has no visible effect whatsoever. So can

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Eluze
Matthew Collett wrote Adding e.g. \hspace #8 before the lyric \responsum does not move it much to the right; mostly it just makes the rest of the line bunch up more. Adding e.g. \tweak #'Y-offset #-8 before \mark has no visible effect whatsoever. So can anyone suggest a way either: (a) to

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Eluze
David Kastrup wrote ly/gregorian.ly contains a predefined \responsum command. How does this relate to the problem discussed here? I didn't know that - thanks for the hint! so I added the relevant definitions from gregorian.ly: #(define (add-prefix-to-lyrics prefix music) (let ((found?

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Collett
On 17/01/2013, at 12:10 am, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: ly/gregorian.ly contains a predefined \responsum command. How does this relate to the problem discussed here? Not at all: that simply prepends an ℟ to some text. Best wishes, Matthew ___

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Eluze
Matthew Collett wrote So can anyone suggest a way either: (a) to move the mark down; or (b) to move the lyric ℟. to somewhere near the righthand end; or (c) to place a symbol in the desired position (under or just before the double bar, level with the lyrics) by some other method entirely?

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Eluze
Matthew Collett wrote As I said in my reply to David, the \responsum from gregorian.ly is a red herring. why don't you use the red herring and add \override LyricText.extra-offset = #'(-2 . 0) \responsum in the code I proposed!? Eluze -- View this message in context:

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Collett
On 17/01/2013, at 1:05 pm, Eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: why don't you use the red herring and add \override LyricText.extra-offset = #'(-2 . 0) \responsum The suggestion of extra-offset is again a good one. Changing my definition of \responsum to responsum = \lyricmode { \once \override

Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Collett
I'm typesetting a set of psalm verses with recurring antiphon, and would like the lyric line for each verse to end with the indication ℟. (responsum) to remind the singers to repeat the antiphon. The following does not work - the end-of-line stanza marks simply do not appear: \version 2.16

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-14 Thread Eluze
Matthew Collett wrote I'm typesetting a set of psalm verses with recurring antiphon, and would like the lyric line for each verse to end with the indication ℟. (responsum) to remind the singers to repeat the antiphon. The following does not work - the end-of-line stanza marks simply do not

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-14 Thread Matthew Collett
On 15/01/2013, at 2:25 am, Eluze wrote: one approach - define repetition = \markup { \huge \bold ℟} then use it in the lyrics within a \markup which includes the syllable after which you want this sign: verseOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = 1. This is the first \markup {verse.

Re: Stanza (or similar) at the end of a line?

2013-01-14 Thread Eluze
Matthew Collett wrote I could jam in an hspace before each \responsum, but the length would have to be adjusted manually for each verse, and it doesn't really work even then: the responsum mark never actually gets to the right-hand end, and the rest of the line gets bunched up to the left.