Re: \underline in lyrics

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 2010, um 18:02:25 schrieb Federico Bruni:
> If you want a continuous line you should put the text inside "".

I don't think that's what Nikolay actually wants. I think he wants the exact 
opposite: He wants to underline several consecutive syllables (assigned to 
several consecutive notes), without having to wrap each of the syllables in 
\markup{\underline ...}.

AFAICS, that's currently not possible in LilyPond, since the \underline 
command does not set some font property, but rather explicitly constructs a 
line with the extents of the given markup.

Cheers.
Reinhold

PS: Actually, re-reading his request again, I think what he really wants is to 
underline several syllables of several notes, but all in one go, i.e. the 
underline line should not be broken, but span several syllables.

As each syllable is a markup on its own, this could only be properly 
implemented by a spanner, so one would need to write a dedicated engraver for 
underlined lyrics...


> Il giorno 30/dic/2010 11.55, "Nikolay Kirov" <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have a task to underline a part of the text in \addlyrics block.
> > I found
> > \addlyrics{ aa- \markup { \underline bb- } cc- dd }
> > and it works but underline only one item.
> > Repeating this pattern does not solve the task because I need a
> > continuous
> 
> line.
> 
> > The syntax
> > \addlyrics{ aa- \markup { \underline bb- cc- dd } ee }
> > does not work.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Nikolay
> > 
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