Re: Lyrics spacing with lilypond 1.6.4

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Alois Steindl <address@hidden> writes:

> this week I tried the cygwin port of the new version 1.6.4 with a
> little song.  Since the letters of the lyrics overlap each other, I
> assume that I have to set some flag to change the spacing rule (from
> note-length proportional to (maximum) word-width).  Is there any
> flag for archieving sufficient space (except placing many breaks,
> which the yields very large space for long notes with short text)?

> \header {
> %        title = "Der schlafende Apfel "
>       tagline = " "
> }        

This file should work fine, as long as you uncomment your paper
block:

>                           \midi  { \tempo 4=120}      
> %        \paper { linewidth = 13.0 \cm }
> }

like so:

          \paper { linewidth = 13.0 \cm }
  }

I suspect that you have been looking at previous versions, because
the file you sent doesn't generate paper output.
  
Jan.
  
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