On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 14:34:37 (+0200), 70147pers...@telia.com wrote:
> On 2018-09-24 at 01:02, David Wright wrote:
> > That's adds a lot of complexity. I prefer a simpler approach:
> >
> > %%
> > \version "2.18.2"
> >
> > A = \relative g' { g2 g( g g) g g g g }
> > n = \lyricmode { "" }
> >
> > Txt = \lyricmode { Ah Ah __ \n _ Ah Ah }
> >
> > \score { \A \addlyrics { \Txt } \layout {} }
> >
> > nbsp = \markup \char ##x00A0 % safer alternative than the literal char
> > (which does work)
> > n = \lyricmode { \nbsp }
> >
> > Txt = \lyricmode { Ah Ah __ \n _ Ah Ah }
> >
> > \score { \A \addlyrics { \Txt } \layout {} }
> > %%
> >
> > The first method can emit warning messages so I use the second,
> > defined in a library \include.
> >
> > You only need one melisma stopper, and I then use _ for subsequent notes as
> >
> > … a melisma __ \n
> > \repeat unfold 83 _
> > Next lyric …
> >
> > is so tidy, and easily edited.
> David: Already after testing Simon's method the thoughts started in my
> head, that I ought to search for a non printable control character,
> but then it dealt with the original ASCII characters (the interval hex
> 0x00 to 0x1F). Indeed I was not aware of the special character you
> use. But it works perfect, and I have not noticed any unwanted side
> effects.
If you write, say,
word. __ _ _ \repeat unfold 83 \n
you might find that systems which are filled with only \n lyrics take
a little more vertical space than
word. __ _ _ \n \repeat unfold 82 _
or
word. __ _ _ \n \repeat unfold 82 " "
do (where the wordless systems are filled with blank space).
This annoys me because I have to print music on Letter paper after
being used to the taller A4 size, so every little bit counts.
> So that is the way I will chose. The last lines in your
> message, starting with "You only need one melisma stopper" I do not
> fully understand, but the method you describe before that is crystal
> clear.
However, if you write
word. __ _ _ \repeat unfold 83 _
instead of the above, you get an 85 syllable lyric extension,
of course. The "melisma stopper" is the single "\n" that follows
the "__ _ _" and terminates the desired 2 syllable lyric extension
by assigning an (invisible) lyric to the next syllable. My definition
of \n uses Unicode's "no-break space" character.
Why so many repeated blank syllables? I typeset a lot of songs
that are in 4-part harmony much of the time, but with cadences etc
where the "backing" voices need extra words that the tune doesn't;
this sort of thing:
"altotext" is for the tune:
Re -- mem -- ber the days, the old vaude -- ville craze,
when we were the best on the show, __
…
"sopranofrag" has those extra snippets:
\repeat unfold 17 _
best on the show, \n
\repeat unfold 36 _
old rou -- tine, \n
…
and the score is my standard one for this genre, which looks like:
\book {
\bookOutputSuffix "2staves"
\score {
\transpose f f
\new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff = stop <<
\new Voice { \clef treble \global }
\new Voice { \accident \voiceOne \soprano }
\addlyrics \with { alignAboveContext = stop } { \sopranofrag }
\new Voice { \accident \voiceTwo \alto }
\addlyrics { \altotext }
>>
\new Staff = sbottom <<
\new Voice { \clef "bass^8" \global }
\new Voice { \accident \voiceOne \tenor }
\addlyrics \with { alignAboveContext = sbottom } { \tenorfrag }
\new Voice { \accident \voiceTwo \bass }
\addlyrics { \bassfrag }
>>
>>
\layout { }
}
}
Cheers,
David.
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