Re: Lyric alignment bug with markup

[Justin Peter]

On 9/14/2021 1:02 AM, Aaron Hill wrote:
> On 2021-09-13 9:03 pm, Justin Peter wrote:
> > When using (or rather attempting to use) a \markup block inside of
> > lyrics, the lyrics become misaligned.  Example:
> >
> > \score {
> >   <<
> >     \new Staff {
> >       \new Voice = "melody" {
> >         \relative { c''4 c c c }
> >       }
> >     }
> >     \new Lyrics {
> >       \lyricsto "melody" {
> >         \markup { Here are the words }
> >       }
> >     }
> >   >>
> > }
> >
> > This is based off of
> > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#placing-lyrics-vertically, 
> >
> > as I was not able to get the case I ran across it in to be quite that
> > small.
> >
> > If there is a better way to markup an entire section of lyrics, please
> > let me know; I can send an image if helpful, I don't know how
> > attachments work with this though.
>
> This is not a bug.  You are specifying only a single LyricText when 
> you use \markup that way.  What you have done is similar to quoting 
> the text which also treats the input as a single word/syllable.
>
> By your example alone, it is unclear why you are using \markup at 
> all.  Simply omit it and input lyrics in the manner the cited 
> documentation shows.
>
> If you are intending to use markup commands, then remember each 
> word/syllable must be its own markup:
>
> %%%%
> \lyricsto "melody" {
>   \markup \bold Here
>   \markup \italic are
>   \markup \box the
>   \markup \with-color #red words
> }
> %%%%
>
> You can also \override various font-interface properties of LyricText 
> if you want to apply certain formatting to all words/syllables without 
> needing to use \markup:
>
> %%%%
> \lyricsto "melody" {
>   \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
>   \override LyricText.color = #red
>   Here are the words
> }
> %%%%
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill

Ah, that's kind of what I was fearing.  Obviously (at least I hope it 
was obvious; maybe it wasn't) I was trying to format an entire group of 
lyrics, and having to markup each word was both tedious and ugly.  In my 
use case, it looks like \override LyricText.font-size and \override 
LyricText.font-shape work quite well.

It doesn't appear that any of this is covered in the documentation - is 
wanting to format entire verses/groups of lyrics not a common use case, 
or would that be something helpful to add?

Justin