On Thu 02 Jan 2025 at 09:08:08 (+0100), Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 at 07:10, Walt North <waltno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I use lilypond to enter music notes, chords, and lyrics and use those
> > to create different handouts for different musicians. For those that
> > receive melody lines I can insert breath marks.
> >
> > The rhythm guitarist just wants lyrics and chords. Is there any tidy
> > way to insert breath marks in lyric lines? That don't look like
> > apostrophes and don't take up time?
>
> You could add the Breathing_sign_engraver in the Lyrics context and use the
> \breathe command in lyrics.
>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Lyrics
> \consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
> \override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #2 % looks better
> }
> }
>
> <<
> \new Voice = "melody" \relative {
> a'1 a4. a8 \breathe a2
> }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
> These are the \breathe words
> }
> >>Attached is some doodling based on the above as there was no MWE. You might want to decrease the X extent of the tickmark stencil, and force an appropriate Y spacing of the elements. (I haven't looked into the staff-affinities warning.) Cheers, David.
\score {
<<
\new Voice = "melody" \relative {
a'1 a4. a8 a2
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
These are the words
}
>>
}
\score {
<<
\new Voice = "melody" \relative {
a'1 a4. a8 a2
}
\new ChordNames \chordmode {
c1 c2 c2
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
These are the \breathe words
}
>>
\layout {
\context {
\Lyrics
\consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
\override BreathingSign.text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.tickmark")
\override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #1
}
}
}
\score {
<<
\new Voice = "melody" \relative {
a'1 a4. a8 a2
}
\new ChordNames \chordmode {
c1 c2 c2
}
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
These are the \breathe words
}
>>
\layout {
\context {
\Lyrics
\override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
\consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
\override BreathingSign.text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.tickmark")
\override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #2
}
}
}
\score {
<<
\new ChordNames \chordmode {
c1 c2 c2
}
\new Lyrics \lyricmode {
These1 are4. the8 \breathe words2
}
>>
\layout {
\context {
\Lyrics
\override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
\consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
\override BreathingSign.text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.tickmark")
\override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #1
}
}
}
\score {
<<
\new ChordNames \chordmode {
c1 c2 c2
}
\new Lyrics \lyricmode {
These1 are4. the8 \breathe words2
}
>>
\layout {
\context {
\Lyrics
\override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
\consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
\override BreathingSign.text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.tickmark")
\override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #2
}
}
}
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