Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-15 Thread -Eluze
input to lyrics. to be honest, i tried it, and i'm back now to "normal" input with one file for every voice/lyric/dynamics/... but maybe your aproach will find approvers! regards Eluze -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Mixing-notation-and-lyric-entry-tp30

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Ellis
nd can fix the ones I do make >> > faster if the lyrics are close to the notation. As it is now, I have >> > to re-enter (cut, paste & edit) the lyrics in a separate \lyricmode >> > block. Any suggestions for how to write the \withLyrics function? Or >> > is

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Ellis
g clean solution I haven't found yet? > > > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > > > > imo it is a question of synchronising & visualising the input of 2 ore more > "voices" (in a general way) > > one way is to put both in a table, the first r

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-15 Thread -Eluze
zed files (in vertical scrolling); that way you could have the melody in the left and the lyric text in the right window (which are both included somewhere in your main score). (of course you can also use one line per measure) hope these ideas are helpful! Eluze --

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Ellis
The following does what I want but requires explicit variables that have to be manually concatenated. There's got to be a way to reduce the overhead. After all, Scheme is the most powerful language in the known universe, right? \include "english-solfa.ly" % english.ly modified to include solfa s

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-15 Thread Jan Warchoł
2010/12/15 Michael Ellis > > Jan Warchol wrote "I don't know how it could be done, and i strongly > recommend not doing > this. Separating different types of content is in my opinion very > beneficial" > I agree that separating content is useful.  As you point out, it allows one > to easily recom

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-15 Thread Michael Ellis
Jan Warchol wrote "I don't know how it could be done, and i strongly recommend not doing this. Separating different types of content is in my opinion very beneficial" I agree that separating content is useful. As you point out, it allows one to easily recombine it in various formats. It's just t

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-14 Thread Jan Warchoł
Hi, 2010/12/14 Michael Ellis : > Is there a clean way to enter a phrase followed by the corresponding notes > in a \relative block?  The example given in the docs, > > { > \time 3/4 > \relative c' { c2 e4 g2. } > \addlyrics { play the game } > } > > is fine for a small example, but it gets m

Re: Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-14 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Michael" == Michael Ellis writes: Michael> Any suggestions for how to write the \withLyrics function? Michael> Or is there an existing clean solution I haven't found yet? I always used to wish for that, and then I figured out how to use point-and-click and I don't need it any more

Mixing notation and lyric entry

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Ellis
Is there a clean way to enter a phrase followed by the corresponding notes in a \relative block? The example given in the docs, { \time 3/4 \relative c' { c2 e4 g2. } \addlyrics { play the game } } is fine for a small example, but it gets messy for longer music. I do a lot of transcribin

Re: Lyric Entry

2004-09-13 Thread Aaron Dalton
On September 13, 2004 11:12 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > In most scores, such a melisma (that you sing one syllable to several > notes) is typeset with a slur or possibly a beam over the corresponding > notes. LilyPond knows about these conventions, but if you want a > melisma without a correspondin

Re: Lyric Entry

2004-09-13 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Aaron Dalton wrote: I am brand new to Lilypond and am having a heck of a time getting lyrics to render properly. I have 2 questions: 1) I want to line up the words "Agnus Dei" under a certain set of notes. So far the only way I have been able to properly align the syllables "De-i" is using 3

Lyric Entry

2004-09-12 Thread Aaron Dalton
I am brand new to Lilypond and am having a heck of a time getting lyrics to render properly. I have 2 questions: 1) I want to line up the words "Agnus Dei" under a certain set of notes. So far the only way I have been able to properly align the syllables "De-i" is using 3 dashes (see source b

lyric entry and punctuation

2004-01-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there a simple solution for forcing punctuation to appear at the end > of a melisma? I have only been able to do this by specifying the > note/time value of each syllable; not only is the method cumbersome, > but it also produces incomplete melismas. (I am using v2

lyric entry and punctuation

2004-01-14 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there a simple solution for forcing punctuation to appear at the end > of a melisma? I have only been able to do this by specifying the No. > note/time value of each syllable; not only is the method cumbersome, > but it also produces incomplete melismas. (I am us

lyric entry and punctuation

2004-01-13 Thread Stan Sanderson
Is there a simple solution for forcing punctuation to appear at the end of a melisma? I have only been able to do this by specifying the note/time value of each syllable; not only is the method cumbersome, but it also produces incomplete melismas. (I am using v2.1.8 with Mac OS 10.2.8, installe