Re: [Denemo-devel] Lyrics Font Control

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 02:29 -0700, Lee Nelson wrote:
> That's actually a variation of what I've been doing, except I edit the
> LilyPond and put the same types of commands in front of where the
> macros containing the verses are expanded in the layout section. When
> putting the font commands as you suggest in verses themselves,
> everything typesets correctly but in Denemo those commands show up as
> lyrics pushing the legitimate lyrics ahead of where they are supposed
> to be. 
Denemo skips over \override stuff when placing the lyrics in the display
- I can't get it to make a mistake like you describe (the backslash must
be preceded by whitespace, I put them on a separate line as you can now
re-size the lyric pane this is easiest.)
Can you send a sample file if your problem persists? Or is it just that
you didn't check with newer versions - (though I thought the
skip-over-lilypond-syntax feature was there for quite a while, I can't
remember when I put it in ...)

BTW if you can use the latest sources (1.1.9) the lyrics pane resizes
after being hidden better.
Also, please do "Group Reply" as others may wish to follow the thread.
Thanks,
Richard


> 
> On Aug 21, 2014 2:22 AM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 01:04 -0700, Lee Nelson wrote:
>         > My first time here....
>         >
>         >
>         > I was anxiously awaiting the feature to control fonts for
>         lyrics.  I
>         > downloaded 1.1.8 today but for the life of me, I can not
>         find where
>         > the option is located to control the fonts for lyrics.  I
>         see other
>         > new lyrics features, but not fonts.  Am I missing something
>         very
>         > obvious?
>         
>         I just looked up the LilyPond documentation and I see that
>         fonts can
>         easily be controlled for lyrics, but I didn't provide any
>         convenient
>         buttons for this :(. Playing around with it I added these
>         lines to the
>         start of a lyric verse (all on separate lines)
>         
>         \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
>         \override LyricText.font-size = #4
>         \override LyricText.font-name = #"Arial"
>         
>         and the lyrics changed from normal to italic, from the default
>         size to a
>         larger one, and from the default font to the Arial font.
>         
>         You can use any or all of these, but you have to be very
>         careful to
>         paste exactly the correct text in there - that's why having
>         buttons to
>         remember the exact text is so handy. In particular watch out
>         for the #
>         the ' and the " characters which have to be right.
>         The size is 0 for default -1,-2... for smaller, 1,2 ..for
>         larger.
>         You need to look up the fonts you have on your own machine - I
>         tried
>         Dingbats and Gentium from the list given by the Character Map
>         tool on my
>         machine.
>         
>         HTH
>         
>         Richard
>         
>         
>         >
>         >
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