Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed

[David Kastrup]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 17 mars 2013, at 12:29, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     
>     On Mar 17, 2013 11:10 AM, "address@hidden"
>     <address@hidden> wrote:
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>     > In the stop_translation_timestep method of the lyric engraver,
>     lyrics are given note heads as parents. Could you send a minimal
>     where the lyrics are unassociated from note-heads?
>
>     \lyrics { do re mi }
>
>     If there's no associated voice the lyrics have no parent until the
>     Paper_column_engraver steps in.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Neil
>
> Cool cool - thanks!
> Then, going back to Janek's question, Janek - what would an
> appropriate note-column be? If there are several, how do we know from
> user input which one the lyric should align to?

Isn't that question sort of irrelevant since all notes at the same time
step are aligned in a column anyway?

Now of course some notes may be _shifted_ in a column in order to avoid
collisions.  But I don't think that shifting the lyrics to match would
be desired.

-- 
David Kastrup