Neat trick! I've added it to the manual. An example without tags
might be useful to help explain it (although in practice this trick is
probably better with tags); people interested in vocal music are
invited to improve this section. :)
Cheers,
- Graham
On 28-May-06, at 3:38 PM, Erik Sandberg wrote:
As a side-effect of my recent cleanups in the 2.9 branch, there's a
new trick
for advanced uses of \lyricsto. If you want to do something very
nonstandard
in a line lyrics, so there's no voice that corresponds to the lyric
line,
then the previous solution has been to insert invisible notes.
The new alternative trick, which IMHO is cleaner, is to align lyrics
to a
devnull context:
\version "2.9.6"
voice = {
\tag #'music { c''2 }
\tag #'lyrics { c''4. c''8 }
d''2
}
lyr = \lyricmode { "foo" "and" "bar" }
<<
\new Staff \keepWithTag #'music \voice
\new Devnull="foo" \keepWithTag #'lyrics \voice
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "foo" \lyr
\new Staff { c'8 c' c' c' c' c' c' c'}
What happens here, is that a Devnull context is created. Any music
which goes
into that context disappears silently, but lyricsto can still align
notes to
the notes.
Graham: if you agree that this can be useful, then a similar example
could be
useful for the manual. For very complex vocal music, I imagine that
this
devnull trick can be convenient; consider e.g. a duet/dialogue where
both
voices are squeezed into the same staff in a partcombine-ish manner, it
should be possible to just use tag to say which notes that belong to
who.
I have spoke to one person who tried lily but switched to another
program
because it was too difficult to enter such music.
--
Erik
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