Re: Choral lyrics assistance, please.

2008-02-04 Thread Jay Ricketts
I might just be adding to the noise level, but my quick-n-dirty workaround to multiple verses that follow refrains is to paste in a bunch of empty quotes - one pair per syllable. And once you have the set for verse 2 (verse 1 will have the refrain, of course), you just paste the whole set of quote

Re: Choral lyrics assistance, please.

2008-02-04 Thread Graham Percival
Thanks for the detailed analysis! Trevor might want to modify the LM based on this -- I'm not certain if he knew how \book worked when he wrote the sections... I know that *I* didn't (and still don't) know how it works, and I'm the one who is theoretically editing his work. (that's why I always c

Re: Choral lyrics assistance, please.

2008-02-04 Thread Nicholas WASTELL
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:59:17 +0100 Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... there's no need to use > \book here. If you just remove the "\book {" and matching "}", you will > get exactly the same result. If there's any information left in the > current manual that indicates that you nee

Re: Choral lyrics assistance, please.

2008-02-03 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Quoting NJW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The solution (that is, one solution ;-) ) is to put it in a book. The prospect of using the \book command seemed a bit too advanced, but is actually quite straightforward. Use of \paper in the \book is analogous to \layout in \score. \book { \score {

RE: Choral lyrics assistance, please.

2008-02-03 Thread Trevor Daniels
Hi Nick I saw your later note about using book, but it can be done in straightforward Lily, although maybe 'straightforward' is not the right word! Using book is probably easier. The problem you had is the quite tricky positioning of the sequential and simultaneous sections. I'll explain here

Re: Choral lyrics assistance, please.

2008-02-03 Thread NJW
With apologies for replying to myself, but hoping this will help someone following on. > This piece has a solo verse, followed by four-part refrain, > with differences in lyrics and rhythms in all four parts. The solution (that is, one solution ;-) ) is to put it in a book. The prospect of us