On 16 feb 2007, at 12:08, Dominic Neumann wrote:
Hi,
I have a song with two parts. The first has also one lyrics line (the
refrain). the second part has three lyrics lines (the verses). I have
the lyrics in the vars refrain, verseOne, verseTwo and verseThree.
If I try to add them via \addlyrics, all lyrics begin at the first
bar. Then I found the command \skip, but it only skips one note and
things like mentioned in the manual "\skip 1*8" don´t work (also only
skip one note).
Is there a better way to do this than inserting hundreds of skips into
the lyrics?
Dominic
The solution proposed by Mats still completely eludes me. It does
something with the difference between \new lyrics and \context lyrics
and the differences are still not clear to me, even after using
lilypond for more than 2 years.
The solution I have is very simple. I just insert the following in
every .ly file and use some binary counting for my skips.
skipOne = \lyricmode { \skip 1 }
skipTwo = \lyricmode { \skipOne \skipOne }
skipFour = \lyricmode { \skipTwo \skipTwo }
skipSix = \lyricmode { \skipTwo \skipFour }
skipEight = \lyricmode {\skipFour \skipFour }
skipSixteen = \lyricmode {\skipEight \skipEight}
skipThirtytwo = \lyricmode {\skipSixteen \skipSixteen }
And if I then need a \skip 1 * 40 I simply insert a \skipThritytwo
\skipEight into my lyrics.
HTH,
Arjan
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