Re: [Denemo-devel] embedding text blurbs? (for lyrics or comments)

[Bric]

On November 25, 2012 at 7:41 AM Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have added a command to typeset lyrics at the end of a piece.
> In git now.
> Richard
>

Wow. Thanks (haven't tried it yet).  Meanwhile, I've been corresponding on the
lilypond mailing list, and, after hard-earned incremental findings, I was able
to produce a PDF that has two verses below the score section, arranged in two
adjacent columns, with appropriate vertical spaces (things like getting a
vertical space was hard-earned, believe me :-), and a single, centered column
(verse) below the two.  They also helped me with things like a horizontal rule.

One big "a-ha" moment there was when I realized my lilypond version was too old.

They were talking about things like "\vspace" and stuff, and my lilypond 2.12.3
interpreter (latest ubuntu build) would throw a fatal syntax error at that, but
the newer 2.16.1 worked, with a bunch of (non-fatal) errors nonetheless...

I will check out your addition.  But, just applying general GUI knowledge sense
-- it would seem impossible to provide an end-all & be-all, comprehensive text
formatting capability within denemo (to the extent that lilypond itself
provides, at this point)

You might need to develop a whole elaborate metalanguage, just for the layout
and text markups... (columns, bolding, italics, etc)...

thanks!


>
> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 05:43 -0500, Bric wrote:
> >
> > On November 22, 2012 at 11:27 AM rshann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > It's far simpler than the Critical Commentary stuff for sure, but not
> > > been done yet.
> > > At its simplest its just a matter of emitting the lines of the verses
> > > with \markup "....." around them
> > > at the end of the score layout.
> >
> > Woohoo!! Awesome.  I just tried adding a \markup section at the end of my
> > denemo-generated *.ly file, and it worked!
> >
> > (As shown on http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/input/lsr/lilypond-snippets/Text
> > )
> >
> > Denemo, Lilypond and their combination completely rock!
> >
> > > As soon as I have a system to work with I'll do that.
> > > Other stuff, a book with .pngs of music embedded is perhaps a different
> > > matter LilyPond has some integration
> > > with OpenOffice for that I think. Not sure where Denemo would come in,
> > > need to imagine a work-flow...
> >
> > I tinkered with the OO extension but didn't readily get too far.
> >
> >
> > thanks!
> >
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