Re: More problems with hor. alignment of button numbers when misusing lyrics (for accordion)

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 26 July 2016 at 21:21, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:23 PM, David Nalesnik
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:01 PM, David Nalesnik
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:52 PM, David Nalesnik
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Something is messed up.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Same results in 2.18.2 and 2.19.45 (Win10)
>>>
>>
>> Adding
>>
>> \set Lyrics.lyricMelismaAlignment = #CENTER
>>
>> appears to do the trick.  Have to do some more study of Lyric_engraver
>>  to understand why and if this makes any sense whatsoever.
>>
>
> *Arghh*
>
> As we read in 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics:
>
> "Note: do not use an underscore, _, to skip notes – an underscore
> indicates a melisma, causing the preceding syllable to be
> left-aligned."

Thank you. I went through that page a couple of times, but at the time
I read it I wasn't even sure what melisma was.

> This is exactly what happens. Here, the topmost LyricText is
> interpreted as the end of a melisma, and so left-aligned.

Ahem ...

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On 16 July 2016 at 00:17, David Nalesnik wrote:
>
> BTW, you have numerous warnings about LyricText caused by using ""
> instead of an underscore for skips.  Corrected.
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> Use \skip instead of _ and your problem is solved.

This solves the problem. Interesting enough though, the underscore
keeps (mis)aligning the text even if put in the next bar. Not that
this is a problem. I'll try to consistently enter skips instead of
"_", at least until I find a way to enter bottom-aligned column in
some "humane" way. Initially I was using empty strings, but I was told
that this was bad :)

(I still don't quite understand the logic behind LilyPond's
determination of spacing between staves when some "lyrics" is missing.
This was part of the problem that David K. was confused about at well.
But that's a different question.)

In any case ... the horizontal alignment works now.

Thank you,
    Mojca

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