Folks,
in my quest to maybe get rid of the recommendations of "\skip 1" for
lyrics in the NR I stumbled upon the following example in
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics.html:
% If you wish to show extenders and hyphens into and out
% of alternative sections these must be inserted manually.
\version "2.23.4"
\relative {
\time 2/4
\repeat volta 2 { b'4 b ~}
\alternative {
\volta 1 { b b }
\volta 2 { b \repeatTie c }
}
c4 c
}
\addlyrics {
Here's a __ verse.
\repeat unfold 2 { \skip 1 } % btw: why this line?
}
\addlyrics {
Here's "a_"
\skip 1
"_" sec -- ond one.
}
(I simplified the input code a bit - which I actually also would like to
propose for the NR -, but the gist of the original example remains
unchanged.)
Now this looks kind-of decent in the NR, but once you issue ragged-last
= ##f, the limits of that hack show clearly (see attached image). And
there should be a difference between a LyricExtender and an underscore
as part of literal lyrics.
Of course the problem is exacerbated if the second alternative extends
the melisma with multiple notes.
The best I could come up with is:
\relative {
\time 2/4
\repeat volta 2 { b'4 b ~}
\alternative {
\volta 1 { b b }
\volta 2 { b \repeatTie c }
}
c4 c
}
\addlyrics {
Here's a __ verse.
}
\addlyrics {
Here's \set ignoreMelismata = ##t a __
"" "" \set ignoreMelismata = ##f
\markup\null __ sec -- ond one.
% \markup\null doesn't kill melismata,
% in contrast to ""
}
This has the advantage of being more-or-less semantically correct input,
and it works with longer melismata:
\relative {
\time 2/4
\repeat volta 2 { b'4 b( | c8 b a g | }
\alternative {
\volta 1 { b4) b }
\volta 2 {
\shape #'((-3 . 0) (-2 . 0) (-1 . 0) (0 . 0)) Slur
a8( b c b) | }
}
a8 g g4
}
\addlyrics {
Here's a __ verse.
}
\addlyrics {
Here's \set ignoreMelismata = ##t a __ _ _ _ _
"" ""
\set ignoreMelismata = ##f \markup\null __ sec -- ond one.
}
Does anybody see a better solution that might be good enough for the NR?
Of course, the ideal solution would be a possibility to tell the Lyrics
context that it should "take" the second alternative and make it skip
the first alternative automatically (and suspend the LyricExtender along
the way). But my feeling is that this would be not so easy to implement.
Lukas
