Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-02 Thread Graham Percival
Sorry for the long quoted text. On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:59:07PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > > James Bailey wrote: >> >> This is basically what confuses people. No, it's not any different >> than what's explained elsewhere, it's just that it's not explained all >> together. All of the co

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Daniels wrote: Mats Bengtsson wrote Monday, March 01, 2010 2:59 PM The main point of confusion is that you cannot do what seems most intuitive, namely to use the << \\ >> construct. You will never be able to make this point in the manual, unless you also include an example of what

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread Trevor Daniels
Mats Bengtsson wrote Monday, March 01, 2010 2:59 PM The main point of confusion is that you cannot do what seems most intuitive, namely to use the << \\ >> construct. You will never be able to make this point in the manual, unless you also include an example of what does not work. I was conv

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
James Bailey wrote: On 01.03.2010, at 14:28, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:03:02PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: On 01.03.2010, at 12:11, Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 201Thanks for the offer, but isn't this exactly the second example from the bottom in LM 3.2.3

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread James Bailey
oh, and stop lilyponding, and rest and get better. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread James Bailey
On 01.03.2010, at 14:28, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:03:02PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: On 01.03.2010, at 12:11, Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 201Thanks for the offer, but isn't this exactly the second example from the bottom in LM 3.2.3 Voices and vocals ?

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread James Bailey
On 01.03.2010, at 14:28, Graham Percival wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:03:02PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: On 01.03.2010, at 12:11, Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 201Thanks for the offer, but isn't this exactly the second example from the bottom in LM 3.2.3 Voices and vocals ?

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:03:02PM +0100, James Bailey wrote: > > On 01.03.2010, at 12:11, Graham Percival wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 28, 201Thanks for the offer, but isn't this exactly the >> second example from >> the bottom in LM 3.2.3 Voices and vocals ? > > Yes and no. Yes, the judas maccabeus

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread James Bailey
On 01.03.2010, at 12:11, Graham Percival wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 201Thanks for the offer, but isn't this exactly the second example from the bottom in LM 3.2.3 Voices and vocals ? Yes and no. Yes, the judas maccabeus example does exactly what's discussed here, single-staff polyphony with l

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Peter Chubb wrote: > You need to tell LilyPond which voice is which. > > The \\ construct creates two new voices, neither of which is aligned > with your lyrics.  What you probably want is something like this: > >     \context Voice = tune { a b c << >          \c

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread David Kastrup
Mats Bengtsson writes: > Xavier Scheuer wrote: >> >> There used to be a warning that said voices in a << \\ >> structure >> are different from voices outside and thus forbid slurs, hairpins, ... >> to continue from voice outside the strucure to a voice inside. >> >> But I must admit I couldn't fi

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-03-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Xavier Scheuer wrote: There used to be a warning that said voices in a << \\ >> structure are different from voices outside and thus forbid slurs, hairpins, ... to continue from voice outside the strucure to a voice inside. But I must admit I couldn't find that warning again in the doc. H

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/2/28 Peter Chubb : > Grahame, this is such a FAQ thaqt we either need to add a section to > the LM in `voices and vocals', or modify the `I'm hearing voices' > section, or add an explicit `implicit voice instantiation with vocals' > section.  Or some other solution? Or wait that Kieren (or a

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread James Bailey
No worries. clearly you use this once a year. I just happen to have all my emails easily searchable. If it makes you feel any better, there was a more recent thread about this on the only 3 weeks ago. You're not the only one. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-02/msg00289.h

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Alberto" == Alberto Simões writes: Alberto> Hello I have a music where in some places the voice splits, Alberto> like: Alberto> << { g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[ dis d] cis } >> Alberto> I was trying to make lyrics align with the top voice of these Alberto> splits. I tried to use: You nee

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread Xavier Scheuer
2010/2/28 Alberto Simões : > Hello > > I have a music where in some places the voice splits, like: > >    << { g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[ dis d] cis } >> > > I was trying to make lyrics align with the top voice of these splits. > I tried to use: > >    << { \voiceOne g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[ dis d] cis }

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread Alberto Simões
/me blushes. Thank you! On 28/02/2010 21:59, James Bailey wrote: > See the thread > here. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-02/msg00877.html > > On 28.02.2010, at 22:46, Alberto Simões wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I have a music where in some places the voice splits, like: >> >>

Re: Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread James Bailey
See the thread here. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/ 2009-02/msg00877.html On 28.02.2010, at 22:46, Alberto Simões wrote: Hello I have a music where in some places the voice splits, like: << { g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[ dis d] cis } >> I was trying to make lyrics align with

Lyrics across multi-voice sections

2010-02-28 Thread Alberto Simões
Hello I have a music where in some places the voice splits, like: << { g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[ dis d] cis } >> I was trying to make lyrics align with the top voice of these splits. I tried to use: << { \voiceOne g2 ~ g8 } \\ { s8 e8[ dis d] cis } >> but it is not working. I think I aske