Hi Gabe, Welcome to LilyPond!
If you'd like to put a note in parenthesis, simply add this command: \parenthesize ...to whichever pitches you which to enclose. http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#parentheses If you want to put simple text/characters below a note, just use this: _" your text here or characters " (underscore and then your text in quotes) http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-text Hope this helps, Ben Gabe Moothart wrote > Hello! > I am new to lilypond, and I'm trying to layout a psalm chanted in > plainsong, so that the output should look something like this: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84432/psalm_example.png > > So far I have this: > https://gist.github.com/gmoothart/6929479 > > which renders like so: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84432/ps149.pdf > > Any comments/suggestions are helpful, but I think my biggest questions > are: > 1) How to create the "bar" in the music (I've inserted rests just to show > where they go) ? > 2) How to add parentheses around the "optional" notes, as in the example > 3) How to add markings directly below the music (the ticks and slashes in > the example) > 4) how to add an "umlaut" over a letter as in the example. > > Thanks in advance for any help. So far I'm very impressed with lilypond! > Gabe > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ----- composer | sound designer LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/laying-out-plainsong-chant-tp152101p152102.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
