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Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)


From: Urs Liska
Subject: Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:22:09 +0200
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Am 06.10.2015 um 21:06 schrieb Simon Albrecht:
>> One of the things that I've noticed about LP is that by default the
>> lyrics are scaled up in size relative to the music, compared with
>> many publishers' scores, which can lead to a more irregular note
>> spacing. This isn't a criticism: it's easily "correctable" but I much
>> prefer it anyway because of my eyesight.
>
> And legibility is the exact reason why LilyPond’s lyrics are larger
> than commonly used nowadays.

This issue is partially due to the relative width of LilyPond's default
text font. Using different fonts with condensed variants is much more
efficient (while keeping legibility) than simply decreasing
LyricText.font-size.

Urs



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