Re: alignment of unattached lyrics - opinions needed

[Trevor Daniels]

address@hidden wrote Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:32 AM


>On 17 mars 2013, at 12:29, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Mar 17, 2013 11:10 AM, "address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.

> 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?

The whole point of using explicit rhythms with lyrics is to position them 
when they should _not_ be aligned with the rhythm of notes.  The syllables 
should be positioned according the the rhythm values attached to them.
This may or may not coincide with a note at that point.

The thing we are lacking is the ability to self-align them on that point
with either center or left alignment, or better, any real alignment.

Trevor