Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

[Phil Holmes]

Be a little careful with your English idioms.  In British English "shoot 
blanks" means you are sterile.  "Draw blanks" means you could not find 
anything.

My wife was amused :-)

--
Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl-Henrik Buschmann" <address@hidden>
To: "Simon Albrecht" <address@hidden>
Cc: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: Horizontal spacing - choir


Thank you for the heads up. Will revise the dynamics, slurs and phrasings.

Fonts. I’ve tried looking in the manual but i shoot blanks: how do i change 
the font and font size of the lyrics?


> 14. feb. 2016 kl. 15.44 skrev Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>:
>
> Hello,
>
> On 14.02.2016 12:58, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote:
> > I need advice on how to best typeset my SATB score. The problem revolves 
> > around horizontal spacing.
> >
> > http://lilybin.com/15a0y9/2
> >
> > I feel it is a bit cramped and the breaks do not flow naturally.
>
> I don’t think it’s cramped – well, I like ‘cramped’ old Peters editions, 
> so that may be anachronistic and personal taste.
>
> > What can i do to improve?
>
> Choose a narrower text font – I like and often use Alegreya from 
> fontsquirrel.org. I’d not advise using a smaller text font, since it gives 
> an ill proportion between text and music size. However I find it perfectly 
> alright to use a fontsize of 16 for choral scores. It will remain well 
> legible.
>
> What’s more, (well-made) choral scores _always_ print dynamics above the 
> staff to not have them on the same side like the lyrics. There’s a number 
> of cases in your example where I’d also move slurs and ties, maybe even 
> scripts above the staff. But that’s a matter of style as well.
>
> And I’d suggest to always use proper lyric hyphens, since the misaligned 
> syllables at the end of bars 19 and 39 are confusing. You can avoid 
> creating a melisma with the slur by either removing slurMelismaBusy from 
> melismaBusyProperties or using phrasing slurs { \( \) }.
>
> HTH, Simon


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