Re: Stanza Collision

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi,

> This is working fine for my hymns, but when I tried using it with the 
> antiphons, which have an asterisk in them to indicate when the choir joins 
> the cantor, the spacing around said asterisk is too tight in some cases.

Where is the asterisk supposed to sit?

Horizontal: Just to the right of the last cantor-only word? Just to the left of 
the first choir word? Centred between those words?

Vertical: Centered? On the text baseline?

> if you could figure out a programmatic way to solve this, I would greatly 
> appreciate that.

When I start with this really simple snippet, it seems (as I understand it) 
that we’re already close:

%%%
\version "2.19.84"

music = {
  a' g'
  a'( g')
  a' g'
  a'( g')
}

words = \lyricmode {
  Some \set stanza = "*"
  words \set stanza = "*"
  to go under my notes
}

\score {
  \new Staff <<
     \new Voice = "mel" { \music }
     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { \words }
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Score
      timing = ##f
      \omit BarLine
      \omit Stem
    }
  }
}
%%%

More solution(s) when I understand more about the problem(s).  =)

Cheers,
Kieren.
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