Thank you very much for this!
I've never fiddled with \scaleDuration but that's an easy hack, and I
only need to use it 10-12 places in the score in total, so not a lot of
work :)
Best wishes,
Jakob
On 05.02.2024 23.56, Hans Aikema wrote:
On 5 Feb 2024, at 20:29, Jakob Pedersen via LilyPond user discussion
<lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote:
Hello all,
I've been trying to replicate a score from CPDL.
<original.png>
The font is terrible, the notes are weirdly shaped. I really don't
like it. I wonder what software made it. Also, why two hyphens in
that short a space?
(I'm wondering which software was used to make it in the first place.)
I've produced this so far:
<mwe.png>
I've used a variable with \set Staff.measureBarType = "-span|" to do
the /mensurstriche/ at appropriate places.
MWE is at the bottom of this email.
I wonder about the lyrics extenders, though. My questions are:
1) I assume extending an extender already there is fairly easy,
although I don't know how. I tried the lyrics.extender property, but
I'm not sure how to use it correctly. I was thinking it might be
possible to have all three lyrics extender lines end at the same
point near the bar line like in the original.
2) Is it possible to add a lyrics extender line to lyrics like the O
attached to the breve in the top line, even if it isn't actually a
melisma? And if so, is it possible to force to extend as far as the
other three lyrics extender lines re my first question.
Jakob,
You can trick lilypond into extending the extender to (almost)
end-of-measure by adding a (hidden) extra note towards the end of the
measure. Using \scaleDurations you make that the total length of the
shown+hidden music still fit within the measure.
You’ll need to add the additional extender in the lyrics as well, as
the hidden note is still accounted for in the note-to-lyric binding:
\version "2.25.12"
global = {
\key d \major
\time 2/2
}
BarOn = { \set Staff.measureBarType = "-span|" }
BarOff = { \set Staff.measureBarType = "|" }
\score { <<
\new StaffGroup <<
\new Staff \relative c' { \global \BarOn \scaleDurations 2047/2048
b'\breve \hide \scaleDurations 1/2048 b\breve \BarOff cis1 | b }
\addlyrics { O __ _ sa -- crum, }
\new Staff \relative c' { \global \BarOn e2 g2. fis8 e \BarOff fis4
\scaleDurations 255/256 g \hide \scaleDurations 1/1024 g1 | a1 g }
\addlyrics { O __ _ _ _ _ _ _ sa -- crum, }
\new Staff \relative c' { \global \clef "treble_8" \BarOn b2 e2. d8
\BarOff cis \scaleDurations 511/512 d2 \hide \scaleDurations 1/1024 d1 | e1 e }
\addlyrics { O __ _ _ _ _ _ sa -- crum, }
\new Staff \relative c { \global \clef bass e1 \scaleDurations 1023/1024
b' \hide \scaleDurations 1/1024 b | a e }
\addlyrics { O __ _ _ sa -- crum, }
>>
>>
}
