Re: Text annotation for hymn stanzas

2005-02-15 Thread Mats Bengtsson
An alternative way to print a line between two verses is to add an extra line of "lyrics" that only contains a space followed by an extender line that lasts for the full piece. For example, in a piece in 4/4 that is 24 bars long, you could use \new Lyrics \lyricmode{ _1*24 __ } /Mats Nicholas Ha

Re: Text annotation for hymn stanzas

2005-02-14 Thread Nicholas Haggin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mats Bengtsson wrote: | You can set the property extraVerticalExtent to increase the space | above or below a verse. For example, to increase the spacing below | a line of lyrics, you can do | \new Lyrics \with {extraVerticalExtent = #'(-3 . 0)} \lyrics

Re: Text annotation for hymn stanzas

2005-02-14 Thread Mats Bengtsson
You can set the property extraVerticalExtent to increase the space above or below a verse. For example, to increase the spacing below a line of lyrics, you can do \new Lyrics \with {extraVerticalExtent = #'(-3 . 0)} \lyricsto mymelody \mylyrics /Mats Nicholas Haggin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNE

Text annotation for hymn stanzas

2005-02-13 Thread Nicholas Haggin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, all. I haven't been able to find an answer to this after a perusal of list + manual, so here goes (apologies if it's already been answered): In many hymnals, when a hymn has more than five verses, small horizontal lin