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Re: Left align first word of lyrics


From: Kieren MacMillan
Subject: Re: Left align first word of lyrics
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 11:34:16 -0400

Hi Carl,

> Would it be possible to pass the lyrics to Scheme as a list of lists (a list 
> of verses, with each verse a list of words), so that for each syllable 
> placement it could look at the nth item of each list and determine correct 
> placement. This may require some manual line breaking (effectively a list of 
> lists of lists, verse --> line --> syllables) so that it can take the 1st 
> word of the nth line of each verse and align them.
> 
> Not sure if this helps anybody with a place to go on this idea.

I would imagine that's possible, of courseā€¦
But of course it would be far better for this to be an #'after-line-breaking 
callback (or whatever), to optionally override the alignment of the first 
syllable on each line.

Best,
Kieren.


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