Re: centering the new Lyrics

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith OHara" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 7:08 AM
Subject: centering the new Lyrics


> Dear engravers of lyrics,
>
> The next version of LilyPond will handle empty spaces within lyrics 
> differently.
>
> If we have some adjacent lines of lyrics, version 2.12 collapses any empty 
> sections, so the set of lines collapses to the minimum vertical height.
>
> The new system by default preserves the space for the empty sections[*], 
> so that the lines remain consistently spaced.   So far I have heard people 
> want to do two things:
> (1) let interrupted lyrics collapse to a single line,
> (2) perfectly center a line of lyrics between two staves.
> The new system is very flexible, so we can do these things (attached). But 
> the new system is complicated, so I always forget and need to relearn how 
> to use it.
>
> I want to make a new snippet(s), or a shortcut command(s).  Do people 
> really want to do such things? What else? Is the attached .ly 
> self-explanatory?
> --
> Keith
>
> note[*] except between one line of Lyrics attached to the next staff #UP 
> and another line attached to the next staff #DOWN.  In this case LilyPond 
> tries to let the lyrics collapse, but there is a bug (issue 1309) that 
> sometimes prevents them from lining up perfectly.

I'd appreciate a snippet in the LSR to explain this.


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Phil Holmes