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Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily
From: |
Aaron |
Subject: |
Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily |
Date: |
04 Jul 2003 01:53:29 +0300 |
Thanks for the effort,
I am sorry I seem so dumb at times,
It is my lack of latex tex and lilypond knowledge.
I am as you can tell trying to do something before I know how, sort of
like leaping before I look.
So thanks
again, I will read and try it again.
Aaron
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 02:43, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Aaron <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I tried the $$ etc. but have no idea what file to add it
> > to and in what format. \\$$ ??
>
> How did you try them, then? :) Simply tack them to the
> beginning of end of a syllabe. Because the preprocessor you
> use does not care about quotes, you can not simply add a
> space like " this". Do it like ~this instead (~ is a space
> for TeX, where it must not break a line -- irrelevant in
> your case). $$ is rubbish, do not try at home. You can
> "insert" arbitrary (even negative) amount of space by e.g.
> \\hskip-3cm (doubled backslash for Lilypond). But this
> technique also confuses Lilypond's internal calculation of
> syllabe widths (beyond the confusion created by \\R{}'s), so
> you may want to change Lilypond's own alignment mechanism:
>
> \property ... How is it exactly? [Google gives
>
> http://www.lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Fine-tuning-a-piece.html
>
> Reading a couple of times... Hacking a couple of hours...]
>
> So here is something you may find interesting (and also
> familiar :):
>
> ------------- cut ------8<------ here ---------
>
> \version "1.6.10" % Thanks, Han-Wen!
>
> % Do you still have problems with the titles?
> \header {
> title = "Title"
> % languague = "hebrew,english" % don't forget to uncomment this!
> }
>
> \include "paper26.ly"
>
> % General purpose mapping function: applies FUNC to every
> % text field in MUSIC.
> #(define (text-map func music)
> (let ((text (ly-get-mus-property music 'text))
> (element (ly-get-mus-property music 'element))
> (elements (ly-get-mus-property music 'elements)))
> (if (not (null? text))
> (ly-set-mus-property! music 'text (func text)))
> (if (not (null? element))
> (ly-set-mus-property! music 'element (text-map func element)))
> (if (not (null? elements))
> (ly-set-mus-property! music 'elements
> (map (lambda (m) (text-map func m)) elements)))
> music))
>
> % Does Scheme really not include this function?
> #(define (string-reverse str)
> (list->string (reverse (string->list str))))
>
> % Reverse every word (in terms of the above two functions)
> #(define (text-reverse lyric)
> (text-map string-reverse lyric))
>
> % Sandwich every word between PRE and POST
> #(define (text-augment pre post)
> (lambda (lyric)
> (text-map (lambda (word) (string-append pre word post)) lyric)))
>
> % I factored out the lyrics, and also tried setting
> % the extra-offset property randomly. It works.
> lyr = \lyrics {
> Tamm,
> \property LyricsVoice . LyricText \override #'extra-offset = #'(5 . 0)
> ta
> \property LyricsVoice . LyricText \revert #'extra-offset
> damm
> }
>
> \score {
> \addlyrics
> \notes {
> \clef "bass"
> \key d \major
> \time 3/4
> d4. a8 g4
> }
> \context Lyrics < \lyr \apply #(text-augment "A" "B") \lyr >
> % Here you probably want to use "\\R{" and "}" instead.
> \paper {
> papersize = "a4"
> indent = 0.0\cm
> }
> }
>
> ------------- and ------8<------ here ---------
>
> Hmm, the documentation seems *MUCH* more comprehensible than
> last time I checked (half a year or so). But I declare
> Scheme the worst functional language ever. Or maybe I
> should learn it. I am really interested in the right way of
> doing the above. Hmm. What is the way to munge the text
> AFTER Lily's positioning work?
> Feri.
>
>
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- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, (continued)
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2003/07/02
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Amelie Zapf, 2003/07/02
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Aaron, 2003/07/02
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Amelie Zapf, 2003/07/02
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- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Amelie Zapf, 2003/07/03
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Aaron, 2003/07/03
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Amelie Zapf, 2003/07/03
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Ferenc Wagner, 2003/07/03
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Aaron, 2003/07/03
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Ferenc Wagner, 2003/07/03
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily,
Aaron <=
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2003/07/03
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Ferenc Wagner, 2003/07/04
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2003/07/04
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- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2003/07/04
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- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Ferenc Wagner, 2003/07/04
- Re: lyrics entry help!!!-was hebrew lily, Aaron, 2003/07/04
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