Re: Repeating stanza numbers

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Collett <address@hidden> writes:

    Matthew> shortVocalName'.  You may not like the position of the
    Matthew> numbers though (outside the left of the staff).
    >> 
    >> I don't.  Is there a workaround?  

    Matthew> As I said in a message posted very shortly after the one
    Matthew> you quoted, it can be changed with an X-offset in the
    Matthew> layout; e.g.  \override InstrumentName #'X-offset = #3

This does indeed change it.  Unfortunately, it changes not only the
offset but the justification.  If I have stanza numbers like "1.",
"2."..."16.", I want the "."s to be aligned, not the first figure.  This is
what shortVocalName does without the X-offset override, but with it, it
aligns the first digit.  Is there a workaround for this?

    >> I'm setting some stuff from the Ravenscroft psalter (first try
    >> <http://serpentpublications.org/wordpress/?page_id=20&id=777>), and some
    >> of the psalms have *lots* of verses.

    Matthew> I didn't bother with shortVocalName when doing a lilypond
    Matthew> version of Farnaby's Ps 122 from that, but it is only three
    Matthew> stanzas :).
 
I don't bother with it for three stanzas, either, but when there are
more than 4 or 5 stanzas, it's really helpful.

To clarify, my \layout section looks like:

          \context { \Lyrics
                     \override InstrumentName #'font-size = #0
                     \override InstrumentName #'font-series = #'bold
%                    \override InstrumentName #'X-offset = #0
                   }

If I comment out the X-offset, I get stanza numbers on the second system
that are in the wrong x position.  If I don't comment it out, they're
roughly in the right position (your suggested #3 value works well for
single-digit stanza numbers, but not for the two-digit ones), but with
the wrong alignment.

stz really did used to do the right thing.

You can see my current best effort (X-offset of #0) at
<http://serpentpublications.org/music/ravenscroft/place/allparts.pdf>.
As you see, the second system shortVocalName's do not align as well with
the lyrics as the first system stanza's.

If someone who understands this better than I do agrees with me that
this is a bug, I'll be happy to write up a real bug report, especially
if you tell me what feature of lilypond to report the bug against.  I've
put a lot of effort into writing up bugs recently (both here and on
emacs24) that got categorized as "not a bug" when the real category is
"too hard to fix".  I assume there's a reason why stz went away, and
maybe it's because what stanza does with stanza numbers is really hard
to do on the second system.  Although I don't see why it should be.

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