Re: [Denemo-devel] Lyrics Font Control

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 15:20 -0700, Lee Nelson wrote:
> OK, so somewhere I missed the need to have whitespace before the
> \override.

I suspect it may not be documented anywhere I'm afraid; I've added font
and font size now to the lyrics menu, and mentioned about white space in
the tooltip.

>   Also, I had seen the expression "skip-over-lilypond-syntax" used,

where was that? I could improve the wording ....

Richard

>  but I didn't understand what it meant or what the feature does.  Now
> I do.  When I do as you suggested, I'm able to get exactly what I was
> looking for.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Richard Shann
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 02:29 -0700, Lee Nelson wrote:
>         > That's actually a variation of what I've been doing, except
>         I edit the
>         > LilyPond and put the same types of commands in front of
>         where the
>         > macros containing the verses are expanded in the layout
>         section. When
>         > putting the font commands as you suggest in verses
>         themselves,
>         > everything typesets correctly but in Denemo those commands
>         show up as
>         > lyrics pushing the legitimate lyrics ahead of where they are
>         supposed
>         > to be.
>         
>         Denemo skips over \override stuff when placing the lyrics in
>         the display
>         - I can't get it to make a mistake like you describe (the
>         backslash must
>         be preceded by whitespace, I put them on a separate line as
>         you can now
>         re-size the lyric pane this is easiest.)
>         Can you send a sample file if your problem persists? Or is it
>         just that
>         you didn't check with newer versions - (though I thought the
>         skip-over-lilypond-syntax feature was there for quite a while,
>         I can't
>         remember when I put it in ...)
>         
>         BTW if you can use the latest sources (1.1.9) the lyrics pane
>         resizes
>         after being hidden better.
>         Also, please do "Group Reply" as others may wish to follow the
>         thread.
>         Thanks,
>         Richard
>         
>         
>         >
>         > On Aug 21, 2014 2:22 AM, "Richard Shann"
>         <address@hidden>
>         > wrote:
>         >         On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 01:04 -0700, Lee Nelson wrote:
>         >         > My first time here....
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         > I was anxiously awaiting the feature to control
>         fonts for
>         >         lyrics.  I
>         >         > downloaded 1.1.8 today but for the life of me, I
>         can not
>         >         find where
>         >         > the option is located to control the fonts for
>         lyrics.  I
>         >         see other
>         >         > new lyrics features, but not fonts.  Am I missing
>         something
>         >         very
>         >         > obvious?
>         >
>         >         I just looked up the LilyPond documentation and I
>         see that
>         >         fonts can
>         >         easily be controlled for lyrics, but I didn't
>         provide any
>         >         convenient
>         >         buttons for this :(. Playing around with it I added
>         these
>         >         lines to the
>         >         start of a lyric verse (all on separate lines)
>         >
>         >         \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
>         >         \override LyricText.font-size = #4
>         >         \override LyricText.font-name = #"Arial"
>         >
>         >         and the lyrics changed from normal to italic, from
>         the default
>         >         size to a
>         >         larger one, and from the default font to the Arial
>         font.
>         >
>         >         You can use any or all of these, but you have to be
>         very
>         >         careful to
>         >         paste exactly the correct text in there - that's why
>         having
>         >         buttons to
>         >         remember the exact text is so handy. In particular
>         watch out
>         >         for the #
>         >         the ' and the " characters which have to be right.
>         >         The size is 0 for default -1,-2... for smaller,
>         1,2 ..for
>         >         larger.
>         >         You need to look up the fonts you have on your own
>         machine - I
>         >         tried
>         >         Dingbats and Gentium from the list given by the
>         Character Map
>         >         tool on my
>         >         machine.
>         >
>         >         HTH
>         >
>         >         Richard
>         >
>         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
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