Re: [PATCH [uploaded to Rietveld]] Automatic lyric extenders

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2016-12-26 00:38, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Alexander Kobel wrote Sunday, December 25, 2016 2:19 PM
>
> > But: I cannot imagine a situation where I would not use automatic
> > extenders, so I'm a really bad person to judge the need and requirements
> > for a manual mode.
>
> One obvious and fairly common situation is when there are several
> verses set beneath a melody line, but with different melismata.  In
> this situation is is far easier to disable the automatic detection
> of melismata and indicate them in the lyrics with "_".  That will
> still work fine, AFAIUI, but equally the extender lines will differ
> between the verses and will also need to be indicated manually.  Or
> have I misunderstood something?

No need for manual indication. That's just a matter of adding the 
necessary _ for moments without a syllable on their own. Extenders are 
added automatically if and only if necessary.

> I attach a recent example - very Christmassy!

Nice one, thanks.
Note that, due to the fixed voice association to soprano in the SATB 
template, you should manually left-align the syllables where the bass 
has 8.( 16).
And I love the fact that lyrics assigned to a Staff instead of a Voice 
(news around 2.19.50) easily allow to align the { King. __ } and { 
mould. __ } to the left e' note of the alto instead of the shifted one 
in soprano...
Sorry, I meant to write { King. } and { mould. }, of course. ;-)

> How would this be coded in future?

Find attached the output of 2.19.54 with Knut's patch after
  sed -i -e 's/__ //g' As\ Joseph\ was\ A-Walking.ly
:-)


Cheers,
Alexander

As Joseph was A-Walking.ly
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