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Re: formatting of elided syllable in lyrics


From: Graham King
Subject: Re: formatting of elided syllable in lyrics
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 22:55:50 +0100

Thanks David & Aaron,
that works nicely.  The thing I was missing was the need to encompass the 
entire syllable (the thing between "--" delimiters) within the markup.

-- Graham

> On 2 Jul 2019, at 20:07, Aaron Hill <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-07-02 9:19 am, Graham King wrote:
>> Where two syllables are set to the same note, is there a way to apply
>> formatting to the second?  I hope I've not missed something obvious in
>> the NR or the Snippets Repository.
>> In the following example, "eleison" is editorial and should be
>> italicised.  The upper line of lyrics has the correct spacing but not
>> the desired italics:
>> \version "2.19.82"
>> ital = \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
>> italx = \revert LyricText.font-shape
>> { c'1 c' d' c' }
>> \addlyrics { ky -- rie_e -- lei -- son }
>> \addlyrics { ky -- rie_ \ital e -- lei -- son \italx }
> 
> You could manually construct the syllable with custom markup:
> 
> %%%%
> \version "2.19.82"
> 
> ital = \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
> italx = \revert LyricText.font-shape
> 
> { c'1 c' d' c' }
> \addlyrics { ky -- rie_e -- lei -- son }
> % \addlyrics { ky -- rie_ \ital e -- lei -- son \italx }
> \addlyrics { ky -- \markup { rie \italic e } -- \ital lei -- son \italx }
> %%%%
> 
> 
> -- Aaron Hill
> 
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