Fw: Lyric word pushes note to right

[Trevor Daniels]

Forwarding to -user to keep the thread in the archives
Sorry for top-posting.

David, the problem is caused by including "gregorian.ly".  This
seriously messes with the horizontal spacing because it expects
to be typesetting ligatures - see
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/typesetting-gregorian-chant

There are two ways round the problem.  If all you want from
gregorian.ly are the \divisioMinima etc these are best copied
out from the section in the Notation Reference that deals with
chants and psalms.
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/chants-psalms-and-hymns
 

Alternatively, if you intend using other things from gregorian.ly 
you can restore the horizontal spacing by an override at the
start of your score:

 \override Score.SpacingSpanner.packed-spacing = ##f

Trevor

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David O'Donnell wrote Tuesday, January 07, 2014 10:41 PM


> Here is an example. The issue appears most obviously with the word "shall"
> on the first and second line, but other examples include "Lord" and "with"
> on the first line, and "and" on the second line.
> 
> The MuseScore example, although not sharp in its details, is basically what
> I want, as it does not create this strange stretching.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>wrote:
> 
>>
>> David O'Donnell wrote Tuesday, January 07, 2014 1:27 AM
>>
>>
>> >I frequently work with scores with lyrics and continually encounter this
>> > problem, especially when engraving a transcription of plainchant. A lyric
>> > syllable of a longer length will push the other notes in the melisma to
>> the
>> > right, creating an uneven spacing of beamed or tied notes.
>>
>> Could you post a .ly file which shows this fault, please; the
>> shorter the better.
>>
>> Trevor
>>
>

example.ly
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lilypond.pdf
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musescore.pdf
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