The lyrics lines are included in the LilyPond MIDI output, but I guess it depends on the MIDI player you use. For example, I tried to run mf2t (http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/mf2t/) on the output from the melody-lyrics.ly template and it gives:
MFile 1 3 384 MTrk 0 Meta Text "Creator: GNU LilyPond 2.2.0 " 0 Meta Text "Generated automatically by: GNU LilyPond 2.2.0 " 0 Meta Text "at Tue Apr 27 10:40:42 2004 " 0 Meta Text "at Tue Apr 27 10:40:42 2004 " 0 Meta SeqName "Track 0" 0 Meta TrkEnd TrkEnd MTrk 0 On ch=1 n=69 v=127 0 TimeSig 4/4 18 8 0 Meta TrkName "" 0 Tempo 1000000 384 Off ch=1 n=69 v=64 384 On ch=1 n=71 v=127 768 Off ch=1 n=71 v=64 768 On ch=1 n=72 v=127 1152 Off ch=1 n=72 v=64 1152 On ch=1 n=74 v=127 1536 Off ch=1 n=74 v=64 1536 Meta TrkEnd TrkEnd MTrk 0 Meta Lyric "Aaa" 0 TimeSig 4/4 18 8 0 Meta TrkName "uniqueContext0" 0 Tempo 1000000 384 Meta Lyric "Bee" 768 Meta Lyric "Cee" 1152 Meta Lyric "Dee" 1152 Meta TrkEnd TrkEnd If you want more information, search the mailing list archives. /Mats Quoting Michiel Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello all, > > If I'm correct (which is always the question) one can add lyrics to a > midi file so they can be showed during playback. Kind of like karaoke > style... (if the player supports it of course) > > when I write a song with lilypond including lyrics, and generate a > midifile ou tof it, however, those lyrics do not appear... is that a > special setting you need to add, or does lilypond not support this (yet)? > > I'm running lilypond 2.2.0 and the song very globally looks like this: > > << \notes \new staff { a b c d } > \lyricsto \new Lyrics=A \lyrics {a b c d} > >> > \paper {} > \midi {} > > Maybe this shortens my search for how to get this done... > > TIA > > Michiel > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user