Re: Lyrics: vertically stacking alternative words

Hi Fred, > I would have preferred the latter, but it doesn’t seem possible to attach > punctuation to a vcenter construction without playing merry hob with the > spacing and alignment – but I suspect that I’ll be the only one to notice. It is not too hard. You probably want to keep the lines righ

Re: Lyrics: vertically stacking alternative words

benbigno...@gmx.de > Subject: Re: Lyrics: vertically stacking alternative words > Message-ID: <403387b5-6c89-4fab-818f-11299f76f...@gmx.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Hi Fred, > > Am 24.06.2025 um 17:26 schrieb l

Re: Lyrics: vertically stacking alternative words

Hi Fred, Am 24.06.2025 um 17:26 schrieb lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org: Is there a simple way to set lyrics like the example below? I you love you me That is, "(I/you) love (you/me)," where the pronoun stacks are vertically centered on the single lyric line. I tri

Re: "Lyrics" for percussion instruments (agogo bells)

Thanks Valentin When I use your example, it does only display one stave and a percussion one too - but all the notes have been compressed onto one line But I ran with your suggestion and have now crafted what I wanted !! I'm not proficient enough to be able to write short snippets (I'm unsure

Re: "Lyrics" for percussion instruments (agogo bells)

Hello Phil, when posting here please post a full and minimal working example. Else it is much harder for us to help you. With your definitions doing \new DrumStaff \agogo \addlyrics \words works quite fine on my end. So we’d need to know what you’re actually doing to be able to understand your

Re: Lyrics and Barchecks

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 8:06 PM David Wright wrote: > [...] > Alternatively, you can leave the bar and bar number checks in place, > as you suggest above, but use the tersely documented¹ expect-warning > feature to silence just these warnings. (check3.ly, attached.) That > will prevent their spam

Re: Lyrics and Barchecks

On Thu 25 Apr 2024 at 13:06:01 (-0700), Steve Carlock wrote: > Thanks. I agree that the barcheck warning message is cryptic. It appears > that this issue happens when the lyric is attached to notes that are tied > across a measure boundary. Unfortunately I can't change the third measure > - that

Re: Lyrics and Barchecks

It is known (and documented) that bar checks need to be used with care within Lyrics contexts. I was thinking about this problem and wondered if a custom engraver would be able to assist. (The actual bar checks are implemented in an iterator, presumably because it results in faster processing

Re: Lyrics and Barchecks

William, Thanks. I agree that the barcheck warning message is cryptic. It appears that this issue happens when the lyric is attached to notes that are tied across a measure boundary. Unfortunately I can't change the third measure - that motif from my simple example is used frequently in the pie

Re: Lyrics and Barchecks

Dear Steve, I think the reason for this is hinted at by the cryptic "5/8" in the barcheck failure message. The "mine" at the end of the first measure extends all the way until the next note ("I"), which is not at the beginning of a bar, causing the barcheck to fail. If you try the following e

Re: Lyrics alignAboveContext

Hopefully this will get you started: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/displaying-chords#customizing-chord-names -- Knute Snortum On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 4:38 PM Mats-Olof Liljegren wrote: > Hi! > > In this part I would like to have the lyrics above soprano 1 and Oh as > l

Re: Lyrics above staff

Le vendredi 06 octobre 2023 à 20:26 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > > > > > > OMG! I didn't know that syntax at all. It looks undocumented. > > > Sigh.  We definitely were too careless with documentation then... https://gitlab.com/lilypond/li

Re: Lyrics above staff

Thanks all for your help! The final working code is: \version "2.24.2" \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff = "soprano" \with { \override InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT instrumentName = #"S. " } \new Voice = "S" { \relative { c'4 d e f } } \new Ly

Re: Lyrics above staff

>>> Le 6 oct. 2023 à 15:47, David Kastrup a écrit : >>> \new Staff = "staff" { >>> c'1 >>> } \addlyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "staff"} { Om } >> >> >> OMG! I didn't know that syntax at all. It looks undocumented. > > Sigh. We definite

Re: Lyrics above staff

Jean Abou Samra writes: >  > > >> Le 6 oct. 2023 à 15:47, David Kastrup a écrit : >> \new Staff = "staff" { >> c'1 >> } \addlyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "staff"} { Om } > > > OMG! I didn't know that syntax at all. It looks undocumented.

Re: Lyrics above staff

 > Le 6 oct. 2023 à 15:47, David Kastrup a écrit : > \new Staff = "staff" { > c'1 > } \addlyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "staff"} { Om } OMG! I didn't know that syntax at all. It looks undocumented.

Re: Lyrics above staff

> Le 6 oct. 2023 à 18:13, Dimitrios Sykias a écrit : > >\new Staff = "soprano" { \with { \override > InstrumentName.self-alignment-X = #RIGHT instrumentName = #"S. " } } You have extraneous braces around \with { ... }

Re: Lyrics above staff

Thanks for your help! This works fine: \version "2.24.2" \score { \new StaffGroup << \new Staff = "soprano" \new Voice = "S" { \relative { c'4 d e f } } \new Lyrics { \lyricsto "S" { "1" "2" "3" "4" } } \new Lyrics \with { alignAbove

Re: Lyrics above staff

Dimitrios Sykias writes: > Is it possible to place lyrics above staff using \addlyrics? I tried > “\addlyrics { \with { alignAboveContext = "staff" }” but it didn’t > work. Thanks! It does here. \new Staff = "staff" { c'1 } \addlyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "staff"} { Om } Maybe you are

Re: Lyrics above staff

> Le 6 oct. 2023 à 14:18, Dimitrios Sykias a écrit : > > Is it possible to place lyrics above staff using \addlyrics? I tried > “\addlyrics { \with { alignAboveContext = "staff" }” but it didn’t work. > Thanks! { ... } \addlyrics { ... } is a shorthand for << \new Voice = "voice-name

Re: lyrics on rhythmicstaff?

Thank you. Quoting it plus >> worked, though I still had to use the {} around << >> to get it to work with lualatex. On Tue, Mar 7, 2023, 12:08 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le mardi 07 mars 2023 à 11:55 -0500, Nate a écrit : > > I'm trying to set 'lyrics' (chords which do not match lilypond's >

Re: lyrics on rhythmicstaff?

Le mardi 07 mars 2023 à 11:55 -0500, Nate a écrit : > I'm trying to set 'lyrics' (chords which do not match lilypond's > interpretation of the notes) to notes on a RhythmicStaff, but I'm not seeing > the lyrics. > I thought maybe it was the rhythmicstaff that didn't like lyrics, but perhaps > t

Re: lyrics and melismas

Darn, of course I find it in the docs as soon as I ask: melisma \melismaEnd On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 9:59 PM Kees van den Doel wrote: > I'd like to indicate long melismas in the notes instead of counting - - - > in the lyrics, but I don't want a gigantic slur showing. > Is there an alternative

Re: Lyrics above staff height inconsistent

Aaron, Thank you for your informative and helpful reply! This, for the win: \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 1.0)) } Looks fantastic, problem solved. Adam On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:22 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2021-11-10

Re: Lyrics above staff height inconsistent

On 2021-11-10 7:46 am, Adam Good wrote: Dear List, Here's a question I'm sure has been asked and answered often. I much prefer lyrics below the staff but if I had to, in the example below, what is causing the lyrics on the 2nd and 3rd stafflines to be higher than staffline 1? Playing with: \o

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

On Tue 18 May 2021 at 18:39:14 (+), Carl Sorensen wrote: > > This is how I approach your problem. It uses Devnull contexts to space the > lyrics, and it makes use of the skip-of-length function to provide skips in > the Devnull contexts. > > With this method, you have to make some more var

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

On Sat 15 May 2021 at 21:40:53 (-0700), Aaron Hill wrote: > lyricSkip = > #(define-music-function > (count) (integer?) > "Inserts the specified number of lyric skips." > #{ \repeat unfold #count \skip 1 #}) Might I suggest an extension to this neat little function: The extended function wo

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

YES!  YES!  YES! Thank you Carl. This was exactly the solution I have been searching for. Now I must (a bit ashamed) admit that I have never heard of that function/context Devnull and neither the functions skip-of-length or mmrest-of-length. Devnull isn't even mentioned in Notary Reference, bu

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

On 2021-05-18 6:21 am, Kaj Persson wrote: So I have looked at the alternative method, suggested in Notification Reference, to divide the piece, the voices in parts with one boundary at at the \repeat. In my current case the repeat point also is where the number of choral parts change, before that

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

Hello David and Aaron You'll find my message at the bottom ... On 2021-05-16 23:41, David Wright wrote: On Sun 16 May 2021 at 06:07:22 (+0200), Kaj Persson wrote: [ … ] I think I have read most of the relevant parts in Notation manual and also Learning manual, but, according to what I can re

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

On Sun 16 May 2021 at 06:07:22 (+0200), Kaj Persson wrote: > [ … ] I think I have read most of the > relevant parts in Notation manual and also Learning manual, but, > according to what I can remember, I have nowhere seen a declaration of > the conditions when LilyPond in fact uses the duration fi

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

On Sat 15 May 2021 at 21:40:53 (-0700), Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2021-05-15 9:07 pm, Kaj Persson wrote: > > [...] > > \addlyrics and \lyricsto are related constructs that both create > LyricCombineMusic. This is what allows you to enter lyric syllables > without specifying durations, where the dura

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

On 2021-05-15 9:07 pm, Kaj Persson wrote: [...] \addlyrics and \lyricsto are related constructs that both create LyricCombineMusic. This is what allows you to enter lyric syllables without specifying durations, where the durations are inferred by an associated Voice. Note that in this spec

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

2021-05-15 20:31 skrev David Wright: On Sat 15 May 2021 at 16:03:54 (+0200), Kaj Persson wrote: In the Notation manual is described how to manage Lyrics in Repeat conditions. It shows examples the Repeat section following an initial part of music. There are also examples when the Repeat start

Re: Lyrics and Repeats

On Sat 15 May 2021 at 16:03:54 (+0200), Kaj Persson wrote: > > In the Notation manual is described how to manage Lyrics in Repeat > conditions. It shows examples the Repeat section following an initial > part of music. There are also examples when the Repeat starts the > piece and then followed by

Re: Lyrics as verses or in system?

Thanks that looks pretty much like what I want. I felt sure that someone would have done it already! -- Peter C

Re: Lyrics as verses or in system?

On 2021-01-11 7:30 pm, Peter Chubb wrote: Hi, When I'm typesetting hymns, I'd like to be able to enter lyrics once only, so that they are between the staves of a system for the choir, and below a single melody line for the congregation. Is there an easy way to join syllables and strip du

Re: Lyrics for ossia staff

Remy, Thanks for the suggestion, but I have the same problem with this that I have with the Documentation: it works fine as a snippet, but when I put it in the entire piece, the ossia staff is below the bass staff, and the ossia lyrics are beneath the soprano lyrics under the top staff. I need to

Re: Lyrics for ossia staff

Here is another way (especially if one uses Frescobaldi and its Score Wizard to create the score structure: %% CODE %% \version "2.19" \language "english" soprano = { a'2. << { f'4( ~ | f'4. g'8 a'4 f' ~ | } \new Staff = "Solo" \with { alignAboveContext = #"sopranos" }

Re: Lyrics for ossia staff

Got it, thanks! I'll try it out now. On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:31 PM Remy CLAVERIE wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > > > Here is a MWE with ossia/lyrics: > > > > \version "2.18.2" > > OssiaLyrics = \lyricmode { > Ma -- gni -- fi -- cat > } > > \new Staff > << > \new Voice \relative c { > c''4 b d c

re: Lyrics for ossia staff

Hi Jerry,   Here is a MWE with ossia/lyrics:   \version "2.18.2" OssiaLyrics = \lyricmode {   Ma -- gni -- fi -- cat } \new Staff <<   \new Voice \relative c {     c''4 b d c     <<   { c4 b d c }     \new Staff     <<   \new Voice = "V" \relative c'' { e4 d f e }    

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

Le mar. 28 avr. 2020 à 16:26, Carl Sorensen a écrit : ->CS: I don't think we have anything in LilyPond that tries to synchronize > two scores, so that doesn't particularly bother me. > Well, my idea was not to synchronised both scores, just to show the unwanted extra space between to quarter not

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

From: Pierre Perol-Schneider Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 8:16 AM To: Carl Sorensen Cc: lilypond-user Subject: Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing Hi Carl, Thanks, but since you gathered both staves to a single score, yes that works. However, if 2 scores the first syllable looks ok -- so

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

Hi Carl, Thanks, but since you gathered both staves to a single score, yes that works. However, if 2 scores the first syllable looks ok -- so better output -- but the problem remains: \version "2.20.0" %% just a line to show the horizontal spacing: redline = \markup { \with-color #red \with-d

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

Ok, thank you Kieren, I'll put that on the bug list. Cheers, Pierre Le mar. 28 avr. 2020 à 14:24, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : > Hi Pierre, > > > I'm not sure if this is a bug (I didn't find any it in the bug list). > > Sure looks like it to me…! > > > I'd like to avoid this bad spacing. Any idea

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

From: Pierre Perol-Schneider Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 2:39 AM To: lilypond-user Subject: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing I'm not sure if this is a bug (I didn't find any it in the bug list). Anyway, I'd like to avoid this bad spacing. Any idea how to? CS-> I eliminated it by using \add

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

Hi Pierre, > I'm not sure if this is a bug (I didn't find any it in the bug list). Sure looks like it to me…! > I'd like to avoid this bad spacing. Any idea how to? Only really hacky ones. =( Sorry, Kieren.

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

Oops, \tweak extra-spacing-width #-1 has nothing to do here... Le mar. 28 avr. 2020 à 12:26, Pierre Perol-Schneider < pierre.schneider.pa...@gmail.com> a écrit : > I have this workaround: > > \version "2.20.0" > > %% just a line to show the horizontal spacing: > redline = \markup { > \with-colo

Re: Lyrics vs horizontal spacing

I have this workaround: \version "2.20.0" %% just a line to show the horizontal spacing: redline = \markup { \with-color #red \with-dimensions-from \null \translate #'(.6 . -15) \draw-line #'(0 . 25) } %%% << { \voiceOne c'' 4 4 4 \new Voice { \voiceOne c''4 4 4 } 4 4 } \\ { \voiceT

Re: Lyrics on rest question

Hello Aaron, Thanks a lot for your hints, the third one is the right way to go for me. JM % \version "2.19.83" % automatically converted by musicxml2ly from SyllableOnRest_musicxml2ly.xml \header { title = "Syllable on rest" } PartPOneVoiceOne = \relative e' { \c

Re: Lyrics on rest question

On 2019-12-28 2:39 pm, Jacques Menu wrote: How can the « "Syll.3" » lyric be placed under the eigth rest at the beginning of measure 3 to obtain the same result with Lily as with the others? A couple options I can think of: 1) Hidden pitch in the \lyricsto voice context; place the rest in a s

Re: Lyrics in polyphony with ties in second voice

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 6:06 PM Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > > > *From: *Flaming Hakama by Elaine > *Date: *Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 9:41 PM > *To: *Lilypond-User Mailing List > *Subject: *Lyrics in polyphony with ties in second voice > > > > > Hi. > > I'm hoping someone can help me figure o

Re: Lyrics in polyphony with ties in second voice

From: Flaming Hakama by Elaine Date: Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 9:41 PM To: Lilypond-User Mailing List Subject: Lyrics in polyphony with ties in second voice Hi. I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to notate this. I am creating a lead sheet that has vocal line with lyrics. Som

Re: Lyrics in polyphony with ties in second voice

I'm not sure why you'd want that, but oh well... %%% Start \version "2.19.83" words = \lyricmode { One, two and three four } melody = \relative c'' { \time 3/4 g2. | g8 a f2 ~ | 2. | e2. \bar "|." } harmony = \relative c' { \time 3/4 \voiceOne s2. | 2. _~ | 2. | s2.

Re: Lyrics in polyphony with ties in second voice

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 7:57 AM Knute Snortum wrote: > Here's one way to do it: > > %%% Start > \version "2.19.83" > > words = \lyricmode { > One, two and three four > } > > melody = \relative c'' { > \time 3/4 > g2. | > g8 a f2 ~ | > 2. | > e2. > \bar "|." > } > > harmony = \relati

Re: Lyrics in polyphony with ties in second voice

Here's one way to do it: %%% Start \version "2.19.83" words = \lyricmode { One, two and three four } melody = \relative c'' { \time 3/4 g2. | g8 a f2 ~ | 2. | e2. \bar "|." } harmony = \relative c' { \time 3/4 \voiceTwo s2. | 2. ~ | 2. | s2. \bar "|." } \score { <

Re: Lyrics extend question

Hi Wol, > My gut feel is that an extender should only extend if the word does not lie > under both notes. You say you made the font larger, so if the melisma belongs > under the second note, the text extended, hit it, and (like pacman) ate it :-) There is code floating around that does exactly

Re: Lyrics extend question

On 29/08/2019 19:53, Jacques Menu wrote: Hello David, The other thread was about a score I’m adapting for our oboes band for concerts to come. This lead me to compare how various applications import MusicXML, and I found this difference. And you’re right, my interest is in the algorithms f

Re: Lyrics extend question

Hello David, The other thread was about a score I’m adapting for our oboes band for concerts to come. This lead me to compare how various applications import MusicXML, and I found this difference. And you’re right, my interest is in the algorithms for such import. JM > Le 29 août 2019 à 20:4

Re: Lyrics extend question

On Thu 29 Aug 2019 at 19:27:15 (+0200), Jacques Menu wrote: > Hello folks, > > In a MusicXML version of Amazing Grace I have, there is the syllable ‘Was’ on > a first eighth, and then another eighth without lyrics beamed with the first > one: > > > > E > -1 >

Re: Lyrics in second language in italics

David Kastrup writes: > phpguru writes: > >> Hi >> >> I have a Mendelssohn choral work with german (de) and latin (lat) >> lyrics. How can I achieve to set the latin lyrics in italics? >> >> % works, but both lyrics are in regular/upright font >> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "bass" { \bassDeVer

Re: Lyrics in second language in italics

phpguru writes: > Hi > > I have a Mendelssohn choral work with german (de) and latin (lat) > lyrics. How can I achieve to set the latin lyrics in italics? > > % works, but both lyrics are in regular/upright font > \new Lyrics \lyricsto "bass" { \bassDeVerse } > \new Lyrics \lyrics

Re: Lyrics in second language in italics

On 2019-05-15 1:45 pm, phpguru wrote: Hi I have a Mendelssohn choral work with german (de) and latin (lat) lyrics. How can I achieve to set the latin lyrics in italics? % works, but both lyrics are in regular/upright font \new Lyrics \lyricsto "bass" { \bassDeVerse } \new Lyrics

Re: Lyrics Include

- Original Message - From: "Reggie" To: Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 3:42 PM Subject: Lyrics Include Hello. I have a long score composition with a lot of lyrics. I would like to keep my input clean. Is it possible to put lyrics in a completely other file and \include it in score file

Re: Lyrics above context

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 03:30:27PM -0600, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > BINGO! > > Tyler -- that did it. Again, much thanks. > > I need to explore this Dynamics thing. Would be nice to only have to put > dynamics etc. in its own place then apply to each "voice". I assume that's > what > this is for. Y

Re: Lyrics above context

BINGO! Tyler -- that did it. Again, much thanks. I need to explore this Dynamics thing. Would be nice to only have to put dynamics etc. in its own place then apply to each "voice". I assume that's what this is for. Guy On 1/2/20

Re: Lyrics above context

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 01:13:22PM -0600, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > Tyler, > > How will LP know to which context the dynamics apply? I have a open SATB > score? Hi Guy, The dynamics are now only in the Dynamics context itself; I've removed them from the original "Solo" voice. The Dynamics context

Re: Lyrics above context

Tyler, How will LP know to which context the dynamics apply? I have a open SATB score? I'll give it a go. Thanks for your reply! Guy On 1/2/2019 1:02 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at

Re: Lyrics above context

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 08:00:31AM -0600, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > And the answer is, "No, I can't incorporate into the larger score." > > Follow-up question then: can this type of Dynamics directive be applied in > a temporary polyphonic passage? Because that's what I'm trying to do. Final > four m

Re: Lyrics above context

And the answer is, "No, I can't incorporate into the larger score." Follow-up question then: can this type of Dynamics directive be applied in a temporary polyphonic passage? Because that's what I'm trying to do. Final four measures split into two voices, explicitly created: << \new Voice = "Solo

Re: Lyrics above context

Tyler, That is exactly what I want. Now to figure out how to incorporate it into the existing score (because this is only for the final 4 measures and not the entire work). Much thanks, Guy On 1/1/2019 11:13 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 11:37:31AM -0600, Guy Stalnaker

Re: Lyrics above context

On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 11:37:31AM -0600, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > All, > > At the end of a choral work I want soprano solo, their text above the > staff, with remaining sopranos "Ooo" below the staff. There are also > dynamics, a dimenuendo, and a note re: Solo, etc. Right now LP engraves the > fol

Re: Lyrics not under correct staff

David, Thanks for this. I'd better upgrade then - I found I needed 2.19.52 for a new feature (of a bug fix - I forget which). Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com - Monday, November 19, 2018, 12:38:49 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye writes

Re: Lyrics not under correct staff

Peter Toye writes: > Thanks Andrew - of course I should have used a Voice not a Staff! > > I don't really understand the LP version numbering system. Normally I'd have > assumed that third-level changes were for very minor upgrades, and anything > which really affected the language would be a c

Re: Lyrics not under correct staff

Thanks Andrew - of course I should have used a Voice not a Staff! I don't really understand the LP version numbering system. Normally I'd have assumed that third-level changes were for very minor upgrades, and anything which really affected the language would be a change at the second level. Or

Re: Lyrics not under correct staff

Hi Peter, One way to do it. Just follow the example in the NR. You have 2.19.52. I'd urge you to upgrade to 2.19.82. My usual comment: although the development releases are called 'unstable' I find it is pretty hard to crash them, and I bash away at the program all day. I think the term unstable,

Re: Lyrics placement

On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 05:31, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > And THEN I find this: > > http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=781 > > LOL > > I've already redone the code to swap the voices, but I'll investigate this > snippet to see if I can learn how it works. > > Guy >

Re: Lyrics placement

And THEN I find this: http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=781 LOL I've already redone the code to swap the voices, but I'll investigate this snippet to see if I can learn how it works. Guy ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://li

Re: Lyrics placement

on is what I've done. Guy Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 9:08 AM Phil Holmes wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Kieren MacMillan" > To: "Guy Stalnaker" > Cc: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" > Sent: S

Re: Lyrics placement

- Original Message - From: "Kieren MacMillan" To: "Guy Stalnaker" Cc: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2018 2:51 PM Subject: Re: Lyrics placement Hi Guy, Does your definition of ChoirStaff accept Lyrics? That’s usually

Re: Lyrics placement

Hi Guy, Does your definition of ChoirStaff accept Lyrics? That’s usually the reason I see for "jumping" contexts… Hope that helps! Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info

Re: lyrics and other markup in the wrong order

Hi Bernhard, > When I shuffled the markup upwards the raise the lyrics > did not fall below but were equally raised. How to correct that? There may be a way using #'outside-staff-priority, but I was unable to find it. One (crude) way of solving your problem is: r8 R1 r2 r4 h~-\tweak extra-off

Re: lyrics and other markup in the wrong order

I have now with the same piece the problem that the lyrics above the line and the markup text are not as I would like it. the lyrics show below the markup. When I shuffled the markup upwards the raise the lyrics did not fall below but were equally raised. How to correct that? Thanks for your patie

Re: Lyrics "polyphony"

Hi Trevor (and David), Am 20.03.2018 um 15:54 schrieb Trevor: Hi Urs, you wrote 20/03/2018 11:32:30 I've come across the need to temporarily split lyrics into two "stanzas" (in repeated sections). The code I am confronted with does this by using some kind of polyphony construct, but this end

Re: Lyrics "polyphony"

Hi Urs, you wrote 20/03/2018 11:32:30 I've come across the need to temporarily split lyrics into two "stanzas" (in repeated sections). The code I am confronted with does this by using some kind of polyphony construct, but this ends up creating a new \Lyrics context that is added below the lo

Re: Lyrics "polyphony"

On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 12:32:30 (+0100), Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > I've come across the need to temporarily split lyrics into two > "stanzas" (in repeated sections). > > The code I am confronted with does this by using some kind of > polyphony construct, but this ends up creating a new \Lyrics co

Re: \lyrics, was Re: Vertical spacing of figured bass

On Mon 06 Nov 2017 at 09:10:54 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Sun 05 Nov 2017 at 19:29:27 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > > > >> It's very thinly documented since it just confuses people. As you > >> can see. > > > > Well it would do if they don't find it in the do

Re: \lyrics, was Re: Vertical spacing of figured bass

David Wright writes: > On Sun 05 Nov 2017 at 19:29:27 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > >> It's very thinly documented since it just confuses people. As you >> can see. > > Well it would do if they don't find it in the documentation as > they have to either guess or look for places where it's used

Re: \lyrics, was Re: Vertical spacing of figured bass

On Sun 05 Nov 2017 at 22:31:01 (+0100), Noeck wrote: > Hi David (W.), > > > I don't have enough background information to know whether the > > introduction of "\lyrics" was to improve consistency with its > > friends, or just for brevity (popular in the unix world). > > Yesterday I was leaning to

Re: \lyrics, was Re: Vertical spacing of figured bass

Hi David (W.), > I don't have enough background information to know whether the > introduction of "\lyrics" was to improve consistency with its > friends, or just for brevity (popular in the unix world). > Yesterday I was leaning to the latter, in which case one could > imagine contractions like "

Re: \lyrics, was Re: Vertical spacing of figured bass

On Sun 05 Nov 2017 at 19:29:27 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Sat 04 Nov 2017 at 02:10:53 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > >> Jérôme Plût writes: > >> > >> > I tried applying the contents of > >> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-verti

Re: \lyrics, was Re: Vertical spacing of figured bass

On 05.11.2017 04:10, David Wright wrote: BTW is there a move towards \voice, \staff, \grandstaff, etc? No, there isn’t. You might be interested in Best, Simon

Re: \lyrics, was Re: Vertical spacing of figured bass

2017-11-05 19:29 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > David Wright writes: > >> On Sat 04 Nov 2017 at 02:10:53 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: >>> Jérôme Plût writes: >>> >>> > I tried applying the contents of >>> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-within-system

Re: \lyrics, was Re: Vertical spacing of figured bass

David Wright writes: > On Sat 04 Nov 2017 at 02:10:53 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: >> Jérôme Plût writes: >> >> > I tried applying the contents of >> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-within-systems >> > to move the figured bass a bit closer to th

Re: Lyrics above/below on the fly

4 g'4 g'4 g'4 > } > \new Lyrics \lyricsto "xLyricsStaff-1" { Voice two sings now And more > voice two } > >> > > -- > Phil Holmes > > > > - Original Message - > *From:* N. Andrew Walsh > *To:* Phil Holmes > *C

Re: Lyrics above/below on the fly

% 2 s1*4/4 | % 3 g'4 g'4 g'4 g'4 } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "xLyricsStaff-1" { Voice two sings now And more voice two } >> -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: N. Andrew Walsh To: Phil Holmes Cc: lilypond-user Sent: Thursday, Septe

Re: Lyrics above/below on the fly

Hi Phil, Michael, List, I like Phil's suggestion, as it also separates the voices for later, should my client get wise that this is, in all honesty, bad notation that he's asking for. I'll give it a shot and see what I can do. Will that automatically place the lyrics on different sides of the sta

Re: Lyrics above/below on the fly

Hi Andrew, > I'm working on a project where the composer wants both singing voices on the > same staff (it's a call-and-response thing), but such that whenever "voice 1" > is singing, stems and lyrics are down, and whenever "voice 2" is singing, > they're up. > you have had a look at the no

Re: Lyrics above/below on the fly

Why not just use two voices on the single staff, with separate lyrics to each voice, and spacer rests where the voice isn't singing? -- Phil Holmes - Original Message - From: N. Andrew Walsh To: lilypond-user Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 9:58 AM Subject: Lyrics above/

Re: lyrics with alternatives in brackets

Hi Andrew, please always provide a minimum working example (MWE) possibly together with a sketchup of what you wish to achieve. Here is how I understood your problem: %-- snip -- \version "2.19.59" music = \repeat unfold 20 { c' } verseI = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1" "[ qua ]" te ro

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