Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

[Jacques Menu]

David,

Now I see the point : if the two eighths were more distant, the extender would 
have to be displayed anyway - and this may depend on what other voices play 
during the first eighth, such a a large number of shorter notes.

JM 

> Le 29 août 2019 à 18:19, Jacques Menu <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> Thanks to all for your help and comments.
> 
> My use case is that of converting MusicXML to LilyPond, and I’ve learned in 
> this experience that:
>       - if the MusicXML data is of good quality, such as exported by GUI 
> scores editors, alignment of lyrics can be manual as musicxml2ly does;
>       - otherwise, such as when the data is obtained by scanning, one is much 
> better off re-creating the lyrics from scratch in automatic mode.
> 
> A nice day!
> 
> JM
> 
>> Le 27 août 2019 à 18:52, David Wright <address@hidden> a écrit :
>> 
>> On Mon 26 Aug 2019 at 20:36:53 (+0200), Simon Albrecht wrote:
>>> Hi Jacques,
>>> 
>>> this doesn’t exactly answer your question, but I’ve always found that
>>> manual alignment of lyrics is a huge pain to get working and thus
>>> never use it…
>> 
>> The only piece I've used them in was as an exercise in writing code
>> that would generate a correctly notated score containing repeats, but
>> would also generate correctly repeating MIDI output from the same code
>> merely by adding \unfoldRepeats. I started a thread about the problem:
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-09/msg00499.html
>> but I don't remember how the thread evolved, if at all.
>> 
>> Suffice it to say, I don't make a habit of this, preferring to set the
>> score and the MIDI separately. Attached is the code I came up with.
>> To compile it properly, you'd need some library files. "Midi-satb.lily"
>> is the boilerplate code to produce MIDI "teach tapes" for each part.
>> The attached score used the unmangled source, with \unfoldRepeats
>> commented out, and the libraries included of course.
>> 
>>> On 26.08.19 17:39, Jacques Menu wrote:
>>>> Hello folks,
>>>> 
>>>> The more I read this chapter, and the more I feel it is a kind of 
>>>> imbroglio, mixing automatic and manual alignment of lyrics to the voice.
>>>> 
>>>> Do you also feel this would merit a rewrite?
>> 
>> (I'd have to read it in its new incarnation.)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David.
>> <phyllis-mangled.ly><phyllis.pdf>
>