Re: Using lyrics in a markup

[Marc Hohl]

Am 20.01.2011 09:20, schrieb jakob lund:
> 2011/1/19 Jan-Peter Voigt<address@hidden>:
> > Hello scheme-gurus,
> > nr. 744 is bookmarked ;-)
> > There's one more thing. I tried the verse-command and it works nicely, but
> > it will wrap lines:
> > say you have a stanza like this
> > --snip--
> > strI = \lyricmode
> > {
> >    \set stanza = "1."
> >    Toch -- ter Zi -- on, freu -- e dich,
> >    jauch -- ze laut, Je -- ru -- sa -- lem.
> >    Sieh, __ dein Kö -- nig kommt zu dir,
> >    ja, __ er kommt, der Frie -- de -- fürst.
> >    Toch -- ter Zi -- on, freu -- e dich,
> >    jauch -- ze laut, Je -- ru -- sa -- lem.
> > }
> > \markup \column{ \wordwrap { \verse #strI } }
> > \markuplines \justified-lines { \verse #strI }
> > --snip--
> > it will not wrap lines but cross the page margin. Do have an idea how to
> > deal with that?
> That's a good point.. After experimenting a bit I think that replacing
> make-line-markup with make-justify-markup in the macro definition (the
> define-markup-command part) does what you want.
>
> However, I am guessing that the desired output is actually
>
>    Tochter Zion, freue dich,
>    jauchze laut, Jerusalem.
>    Sieh, dein König kommt zu dir,
>    ja, er kommt, der Friedefürst.
>    Tochter Zion, freue dich,
>    jauchze laut, Jerusalem.
>
> rather than
>
>    Tochter Zion, freue dich, jauchze laut, Jerusalem. Sieh, dein König
> kommt zu dir, ja, er kommt, der Friedefürst. Tochter Zion, freue dich,
> jauchze laut, Jerusalem.
>
> where the line breaking depends on column width, font size etc.? I
> can't think of way to control the line breaks, except to enter each
> line individually, like
What do you think of allowing to define a additional "line break character",
for example ¶, which could be filtered out within \lyricsmode, and used as a
newline in the \verse?

So your input will look like

\override Lyrics #'ignore-chars= #'(¶) % this is pseudo code!

strI = \lyricmode
{
  \set stanza = "1."
  Toch -- ter Zi -- on, freu -- e dich,¶jauch -- ze laut,
  Je -- ru -- sa -- lem.¶Sieh, __ dein Kö -- nig kommt zu dir,¶
  ja, __ er kommt, der Frie -- de -- fürst.¶Toch -- ter Zi -- on,
  freu -- e dich,¶  jauch -- ze laut, Je -- ru -- sa -- lem.
}

and the output is as expected?

I don't know how easy such an implemantation would be, but giving a
list of characters to ignore and filter then out in Lyrics and using
this information to rearrange the text would give a lot more flexibility
to this feature.


Regards,

Marc

> strIa = \lyricmode { Toch -- ter Zi -- on, freu -- e dich, }
> strIb = \lyricmode {  jauch -- ze laut, Je -- ru -- sa -- lem.}
> strIc = \lyricmode { Sieh, __ dein Kö -- nig kommt zu dir, }
> strId = \lyricmode {  ja, __ er kommt, der Frie -- de -- fürst. }
>
> .. etc, and then eventually
>
> \markup \column { \verse #strIa \verse #strIb \verse #strIc \verse #strId }
>
>
> Regards
>   -- Jakob.
>
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