sorry for replying to myself - I don't see that the frist attempt
reached the list.
Timothy C Litwiller wrote:
A friend of mine composed a song and we have some similar layouts in
our Church songbooks
look like this attached braces.jpg
You sing to the start of the chorus on the first line of the first
verse the return to the second line of the the first verse and
after you get to the choruse the second time then you sing the chorus
before the second verse starts
He says he could have made it a six verse song as that was how the
inspiration came, but it gets too long singing the chorus after every
verse so he combined the verses. He would like a brace after the
stanza number combining the two lines that make up each verse.
I have this code
leftbrace = \markup { \override #'(font-encoding . fetaBraces) \lookup
#"brace70" }
rightbrace = \markup { \rotate #180 \leftbrace }
and the LSR has an example of using it - but only to end several
verses and go to the chorus - not 3 stacked with 2 lyrics lines after
them.
How would I go about laying this out. I have the notes and a lyrics
line defined for each line of lyrics liuke they are six verses but
every other line doesn't have a set stanza with a number in it.
and second question how do I make the midi it creates play the verse
twice and then the chorus when it is laid out this way.
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First try didn't go thru - I suspect the jpg image blocked it
anyways this is a representation of what i want
1. | first - line of first verse |
| second line of first verse |
2. | first - line of second verse |
| second line of second verse |
3. | first - line of third verse |
| second line of third verse |
words of chorus words of chorus
where the 2 | in front of the words of the verse are a { that reaches
across both lines and at the end of the verse a similar } that lets the
singer know that they need to return to the second line of the verse
before going on to the chorus.
I'll try to get the .jpg with the
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