Re: Lyrics spacing with lilypond 1.6.4

[Alois Steindl]

Hello,
thanks quite a lot for your answer!
Unfortunately I did send an out-of-phase input file (I experimented with 
different settings). Now I rerun the example at home with the final block

\score {
        \simultaneous {
          \addlyrics
             \context Staff = mel
             {  
                \melody }
             \context Lyrics \text
        }
                          \midi  { \tempo 4=120}        
        \paper { papersize = "a4"  }
}

and obtained just one line with several overlaps in the text.

An additional question: The midi output doesn't seem to produce any 
sound when played with Winamp on Win2000. What might be the reason?

Best regards
Alois

PS.: I append the complete song for reference; hope that I don't waste 
too much bandwidth:

\header {
        title = "Der schlafende Apfel "
        tagline = " "
}
\paper{ papersize = "a4" }
\include "paper20.ly"
\include "deutsch.ly"
melody = \notes
        \relative c'' {
        \property Score.midiInstrument = "alto sax"
        \property Score.midiInstrument = "banjo"
        \key g \major
        \time 2/4
        d8 d e e | d4 h | c8 c a a |
        g2
        | d'8 d e e | d d h4 | c8 c a a | g2
 \bar "|."
}

        
text = \lyrics < {
            \context LyricsVoice = "Soprano-1"
            \property LyricsVoice .stanza = "1:"
            \property LyricsVoice .stz = "(1)"        
Lie- ber, lie- ber Ap- fel, bist so schön und
rund und die Mut- ter hat ge- sagt, Äp- fel sind ge -- sund.
}
{
            \context LyricsVoice = "Soprano-2"
            \property LyricsVoice .stanza = "2:"
            \property LyricsVoice .stz = "(2)"        
Lie- ber, lie- ber Ap- fel, spring doch gleich vom Baum!
Schau, ich halt die Schür- ze schon un- ten an dem Saum.
}
>

\score {
        \simultaneous {
          \addlyrics
             \context Staff = mel
             {  
                \melody }
             \context Lyrics \text
        }
                          \midi  { \tempo 4=120}        
        \paper { papersize = "a4"  }
}




Jan Nieuwenhuizen schrieb:
> Alois Steindl <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > this week I tried the cygwin port of the new version 1.6.4 with a
> > little song.  Since the letters of the lyrics overlap each other, I
> > assume that I have to set some flag to change the spacing rule (from
> > note-length proportional to (maximum) word-width).  Is there any
> > flag for archieving sufficient space (except placing many breaks,
> > which the yields very large space for long notes with short text)?
>
>
> > \header {
> > %        title = "Der schlafende Apfel "
> >         tagline = " "
> > }        
>
>
> This file should work fine, as long as you uncomment your paper
> block:
>
>
> >                          \midi  { \tempo 4=120} 
> > %        \paper { linewidth = 13.0 \cm }
> > }
>
>
> like so:
>
>           \paper { linewidth = 13.0 \cm }
>   }
>
> I suspect that you have been looking at previous versions, because
> the file you sent doesn't generate paper output.
>   
> Jan.
>