Uh, no that didn't do what I needed. I should have deleted the words above the staff to make the example clearer. The words below the staff are all lyrics to be sung when under notes and spoken when under either hand claps or rests so they need to be attached to their respective events.
By the way why does the defining of crosses on and off work? And where is that 'shortcut' in the manual? I'm not sure for my purposes that I would use the mua|b thing as those are essentially one time insertions. Thanks Jay Jay Hamilton www.soundand.com 206-328-7694 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Lilypond User" <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Need advice re; text and lyrics combination(s) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:31:34 -0400 Hi Jay, > What suggestions does anyone have to get the two lines to be > together so the words attached to both notes and rests line up better. I'm not sure exactly what you want (especially, for example, with the bold markup "In Position..." -- is that supposed to be a subtitle?)... Regardless, I took a stab at clearing up your code a bit -- maybe my edits will give you a shove in the right direction. Hope this helps! Kieren. _________________________ \version "2.10.25" \header { title = "Tunnel Piece" composer = "Jay Hamilton" copyright = \markup { \tiny \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5) \center-align { "CC lic 2.5 some rights reserved Jay Hamilton 1989" "see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/" } } } muA = \markup { \tiny \italic "words spoken on rests and handclaps" } muB = \markup { \hspace #0 \raise #1.5 \bigger \bold "In Position at the middle of the Tunnel" } crossesOn = \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross crossesOff = \revert NoteHead #'style fluteMusic = \relative c'' { \tempo 4=75 \time 6/8 r4^\muA es8 des ~ des4 | \crossesOn bes8 bes^\muB \crossesOff r4 \crossesOn bes8 bes \crossesOff | r4 es8 des ~ des4 | \crossesOn bes8 bes \crossesOff r4 \crossesOn bes8 bes \crossesOff | } fluteLyrics = \lyricmode { ay oh rack \markup { \column { RACK a } } rack a ay oh rack a rack a } \score { << \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Singer I" shortInstrumentName = "I." midiInstrument = "flute" } << \new Voice = "flute" \fluteMusic >> \new Lyrics \lyricsto flute \fluteLyrics >> } _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user