Re: Need information about Lyric spacing in Lilypond

[fzimmerman]

Dave,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I have two other computers in the house that
have Windows on them (I run a home-based computer support business), so I
can use Sibelius on them if I have to...but I would rather switch to
Lilypond.  By the way, my download link didn't seem to transfer properly. 
The file is on my website: http://www.practicatechnical.com.  Type that in
the browser address field and add /files/flowers.pdf.

Frank.


David Stocker wrote:
> 
> As an aside, if you absolutely need Sibelius, I've had success running 
> Sibelius 2 on Ubuntu 8.04 under Wine. Making a .pdf might be tricky, but 
> I haven't fully investigated it.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Dave
> 
> fzimmerman wrote:
>> I've recently switched my main computer from Windows to Ubuntu Linux. 
>> Before
>> this change, I was using Sibelius quite a bit for hymnbook work.  I am
>> contemplating a change to Lilypond, but before I invest large amounts of
>> time learning it, I was just hoping that a few experts who have used the
>> program for a while can tell me if it is possible to have absolute
>> control
>> over lyric spacing?
>>
>> With some of the hymns I worked on, an attempt was made to make every
>> phrase
>> fit into one line of music, so as to keep the hymn on one page.  This
>> involved really tight spacing control, especially when four or five lyric
>> lines are involved.  An excellent example of this can be seen in the
>> following PDF, which I have tried to attach, and will also provide a
>> download link:
>> http://www.practicatechnical.com
>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p21984523/flowers.pdf 
>> /files/flowers.pdf">flowers.pdf .
>>
>> If you take a look at this file, you will see that sometimes to obtain a
>> good readable text layout, words or parts of words had to be moved to the
>> left or right of the note they belonged to.  At other times, hyphens were
>> ommitted, so as to save space...this means the word must be spaceable
>> under
>> two notes.  It requires quite a bit of control over spacing to achieve
>> this. 
>> Sibelius allowed me to do this...can I do the same with Lilypond? 
>>   
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