Hi Jurgen,
welcome to this list and LilyPond!
I will answer some of your questions but you'll surely get other
responses as well.
Am 05.10.2015 um 12:46 schrieb jurgen.lams...@telenet.be:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a complete newbie here, so please bare with me ;-)
>
> I already spent a couple of hours, reading all manuals and mailing
> lists, trying to engrave something as simple as this:
>
>
> Notice: the "full-measure rests" are not shown in the screenshot
> (beginner piano book), but I want to engrave them anyway. Result:
> please check lilypond attachment.
>
> 2 problems:
>
> 1.cross-staff slur:
> a. using the list archive, apparently a possible solution is changing
> staffs.
Yes, this is the most straightforward solution. And if the image you
posted is more or less all you need it is the way to go.
> I'm changing staffs from "right/upper" to "left/under" after note
> "c4", and then I write final note "b2." By doing that, apparently
> there is also an empty 4th measure added automatically to the "right"
> staff. I did not expect that, because I wanted to put a rest "R2."in
> that measure, by changing back from "left" to "right" after I wrote
> final note "b2.",
> but clearly that does not give me the desired result.
The solution is quite simple in your case: you can simply have the "left
hand" rests change staff too. So adding
\change Staff = right
R2.
after the third measure in the "left" variable will give you the desired
result.
There are solutions that may be "semantically" more correct, but for
your example this is what I would do.
>
> b. It _does_ give a cross-staff slur, but it is not as "nice" as the
> one in the screenshot. That one starts somewhere at the half of the
> stem of "f4" and ends above lyric "round" that is centered above final
> note "b2.". How can that
> be accomplished?
For changing the shape of a slur (or tie) you can use the function
\shape (as explained here:
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/modifying-shapes.html)
and enter e.g.
\shape #'((0.25 . -1.5)(3 . 1)(0 . 0)(0 . -3)) Slur
immediately *before* the note the slur start is attached to.
This is a more general solution than that suggested by David but also a
more (unnecessarily?) complex one.
> But first the lyrics question...
>
> 2. lyrics
> a. I have trouble finding a solution for the lyrics: I want a dash
> between e.g. "Rid" and "ing" (one syllable per note) as in the
> screenshot, but the slur between "e4" and "g2" prevents me from
> getting the desired result. If I remove those round
> brackets (slur), I'm still not getting "Rid - ing" but "Riding" in one
> word without a dash. How can that be accomplished?
First thing: you have to write "Rid -- ing" both times (with a double
hyphen which is surrounded by spaces). This is the way to tell LilyPond
that you want syllables.
The thing with slurs and phrasing slurs (David's suggestion) may warrant
an additional solution. Your original example is actually non-standard
notation: The slurs usually indicate a melisma and therefore the
syllables are distributed differently from what you expect. Therefore
you have to "trick" LilyPond into doing what you want it to do, namely
printing non-standard notation. The trick in this case is that a
phrasing slur doesn't take part in the melisma/non-melisma considerations.
But actually I suggest you consider actually changing the notation:
Remove the slurs in the first two measures completely and use a phrasing
slur over m. 3-4..
HTH
Urs
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Jurgen L.
>
>
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