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LyricText

LyricText objects are created by: Lyric_engraver

Standard settings:

print-function (procedure):
Text_item::print

Function taking grob as argument, returning a Stencil object.

X-offset-callbacks (list):
'(#<primitive-procedure Self_alignment_interface::aligned_on_parent>)

A list of functions determining this objects' position relative to its parent. The last one in the list is called first. The functions take a grob and axis argument.

self-alignment-X (number):
0

Specify alignment of an object. The value -1 means left aligned, 0 centered, and 1 right-aligned in X direction. Values in between may also be specified.

word-space (dimension, in staff space):
0.6

space to insert between lyrics or words in texts.

font-series (symbol):
'bold-narrow

Select the series of a font. Choices include medium, bold, bold-narrow, etc.

font-size (number):
1.0

The font size, compared the `normal' size. 0 is style-sheet's normal size, -1 is smaller, +1 is bigger. Each step of 1 is approximately 12% larger, 6 steps are exactly a factor 2 larger. Fractional values are allowed.

This object supports the following interfaces: item-interface, font-interface, text-interface, self-alignment-interface, lyric-syllable-interface, rhythmic-grob-interface and grob-interface

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