Finally had an excuse to learn this excellent tool. I set a simple four-verse English folk song, with a concertina arrangement. It looks pretty darn good... but it could look better, and I couldn’t figure out how to bring in those last bits.
This seems to be related to many FAQs, but I couldn’t find clear answers that applied to this case. This is with LilyPond 2.12.3, installed from the package manager on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Files [*]: <URL: http://crism.maden.org/ambletown.ly > <URL: http://crism.maden.org/ambletown.pdf > 1) Verse pick-ups. I’d like verses 2–4 to start in the first alternative ending on the pickups there, rather than before the start of the repeat. I tried a few things that resulted in text below the concertina line or duplication of the alternatives, but the only solution I could contemplate was to \skip the entire chorus for every verse. If that’s the only way, I’ll do it, but surely there is a better way to get the lyrics to follow the actual flow of the notes. 2) Alternate rhythms. There are a lot of small differences in the rhythms of the verses. You can see this implicit in the current score, where there are same-pitch melisata and skipped notes. I would like instead to have the first verse’s rhythm in full-size notation, with variations for subsequent verses in small notes or rests. For cases where one pitch is re-used, or where two notes are slurred for one syllable, I could use a dotted tie or slur. The problem is that then the lyrics engine treats them as real ties or slurs, and mis-assigns the shorter syllables; I can then quote them to force them on to the same note, but then the alignment is off. A way to easily draw the dotted ties or slurs without changing the rhythm for lyrics would be acceptable; a way to indicate varying rhythm on the different verses would be even better. This is the kind of thing I see in commercial songbooks and pop/folk sheet music; I would be surprised if no one had a template, but I couldn’t find it. Thanks in advance, crism [*] Sorry, folks; I tried to make a tiny example but failed. Not too long, though; just two 8½×11" pages, and it’s only that long because it’s got four verses blowing out the vertical spacing. The multiple issues involve the interaction of all four verses at different points in the song. -- Chris Maden, text nerd <URL: http://crism.maden.org/ > “Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.” — Frank Harte GnuPG Fingerprint: C6E4 E2A9 C9F8 71AC 9724 CAA3 19F8 6677 0077 C319 _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
