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Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed


From: Phil Holmes
Subject: Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:33:26 -0000

----- Original Message ----- From: "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden> To: "LilyPond Developmet Team" <address@hidden>; "Mike Solomon" <address@hidden>; "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden>; "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:59 PM
Subject: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed


Hi hackers,

I need your opinion on this to proceed with generalizing alignment
stuff (https://codereview.appspot.com/7768043).

What should be the the desired behaviour of "standalone" lyrics, i.e.
lyrics that don't have associatedVoice set?  If you look at this
snippet (output attached),

{ c'2 c' d' d' }
\addlyrics { foo bar la mmm }

<<
 { c'2 c' d' d' }
 \new Lyrics { \lyricmode  { foo2 bar la mmm } }


you'll see that lyrics attached to notes (\addlyrics sets
associatedVoice) are centered, while "independent" lyrics are
left-aligned.  I think that this behaviour is suboptimal - in my
opinion it would be better if lyrics were centered in both cases.
What are your opinions?

The code that's responsible for this behaviour is in lines 134-135 of
self-alignment-interface.cc, and was introduced by commit ebb1f1f1.

I've taken the liberty to cc Han-Wen because he wrote the code in the
first place, as well as David because he's usually interested in
consistency and polishing rough edges.

thanks,
Janek

Without doubt, lyrics that are only a single note long should be centred on the note. Left alignment is only correct where a single syllable occupies two notes or more.

--
Phil Holmes



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