Hello, I'm trying to create a score which contains a piano staff, has single staff polyphony and has lyrics placed between the staves (only one voice). I have managed to create the staves and the different voices, but whatever I try I can't get the lyrics to work. I've been struggling with the lyrics for at least 12 hours, so I wouldn't mind if someone would help. I've read through the relevant sections of the documentation time after time, but the examples there don't quite fit into my situation.
This part of the documentation http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Piano-templates#Piano-templates explains how to place lyrics between the staves, but I haven't managed to apply the instruction to single staff polyphony. This page http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond/Single-staff-polyphony#Single-staff-polyphony explains how to do single staff polyphony, but the syntax used to create the staves is different from the document above, and I haven't been able to mix the information of these two. I've studied several other pages too. So, how do I place the lyrics between the staves? How about two of them? (I might figure that out myself, after I learn to do one). It would be nice to know the (structurally) simplest possible way. Or, if some extra bits would be useful, I'd like to know what the each bit is for (I like to understand what I do, so that I'm able to apply it to other situations). Here's the beginning of the score: .............. \version "2.10.33" sopraano = \relative c'' { \key g \major \cadenzaOn g4( a) b b a2 gis \bar "|" a4 b c b a gis a1 \bar "|" \break b2 a a a4( gis) a b c2( b) a2. b4\rest \bar "|" \break } altto = \relative c' { d2( g4) g e2 e e4 g g g e e e1 e2 e e e e4 g g1 e2. } tenori = \relative c' { \clef bass \key g \major b4( c) d d c2 b c4 d e d c b c1 d2 c c c4( b) c d e2( d) c2. } basso = \relative c' { g2. g4 a2 e a4 g c, g' a e <a a,>1 <gis gis,>2 <a a,> <a a,> <a a,>4( e) a g c,2( g') a2. d,4\rest } \score { \new PianoStaff << \new Staff << { \sopraano } \\ { \altto } >> \new Staff << { \tenori } \\ { \basso } >> >> } ............. Perhaps I might take this opportunity to ask another question. Is there a way to make the first line of the piano score to start from the beginning of the page, like the other lines? Oh, and yet another: is it possible to have slurs to be placed between the tips of the stems, instead of between the note heads? This is how it's typically done for the music I'm trying to notate. I'm very grateful for any help. Regards, Ari Torhamo P.S. Lilypond makes wonderful looking scores (only if making them would be a little easier :-) (yes, I tried the graphical front ends, but unfortunately they were too buggy) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
