Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-14 Thread Trevor Daniels
Tim Rowe wrote Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:18 AM 2009/5/14 Neil Puttock : In your lyrics definition, you're missing curly brackets around the alternatives: \alternative { so } { do } The { do } block isn't part of the \alternative block, so lilypond interprets the volta as having a repeat

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-13 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/14 Neil Puttock : > In your lyrics definition, you're missing curly brackets around the > alternatives: > >  \alternative >  { so } >  { do } > > The { do } block isn't part of the \alternative block, so lilypond > interprets the volta as having a repeat count of two, with only one > altern

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-13 Thread Neil Puttock
2009/5/12 Tim Rowe : > Can anybody work out why the g is in a volta bracket labelled "1.-2." > -- that seems odd, as neither the note nor the word should be there on > the second pass. In your lyrics definition, you're missing curly brackets around the alternatives: \alternative { so } { do }

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-12 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/12 James E. Bailey : > I don't know about several emails, I know of > mine, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-10/msg00533.html > where I posited exactly this, and mats helped me to understand that, > although cumbersome, putting the repeats into every voice was the way to

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, \unfoldRepeats won't work). Another problem is that the midi output doesn't play the repeat I believe that's the same problem, i.e., \unfoldRepeats would be used in the MIDI block in order to force the repeat to be played. Kieren. ___

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-12 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/12 Mats Bengtsson : > This is unfortunately not a good habit and I remember several emails on the > mailing lists over the years where people have got problems because they > have used this solution. Since I'm getting senile I cannot recall exactly > what the problem was (an immediate probl

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-12 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 12.05.2009 um 17:59 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: Kieren MacMillan wrote: This is the way I would do it: \version "2.12.2" \include "english.ly" global = { \repeat volta 2 { s1 } \alternative { { s1 } { s1 } } } melody = \relative c' { c4 d e f | { r2 r4 g4 }

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Mats, This is unfortunately not a good habit and I remember several emails on the mailing lists over the years where people have got problems because they have used this solution. Since I'm getting senile I cannot recall exactly what the problem was (an immediate problem that comes to

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-12 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Kieren MacMillan wrote: This is the way I would do it: \version "2.12.2" \include "english.ly" global = { \repeat volta 2 { s1 } \alternative { { s1 } { s1 } } } melody = \relative c' { c4 d e f | { r2 r4 g4 } { c,1 } } words = \lyricmode { do re mi fa

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, I've lost where I found it now, so maybe I was just thought I was still in the documentation on the webpage I was browsing! It might be there... I'm just surprised that the docs have such a thing (which clearly cause a problem). But presumably I have to count up the bars and put i

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-12 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/5/12 Kieren MacMillan : > Is that really in the documentation? With voltas and barchecks in the > lyrics?  =\ I've lost where I found it now, so maybe I was just thought I was still in the documentation on the webpage I was browsing! > \version "2.12.2" > \include "english.ly" > > global =

Re: Lyric problem when alternative begins with a rest

2009-05-12 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Tim, If I set lyrics against a repeat with alternative endings the way I find in the documentation, it all works fine -- usually. This is ok, for example. melody = \relative c' { \repeat volta 2 { c4 d e f | } \alternative { { g1 } { c,1 } } } words = \lyricmode { \

Re: lyric problem

2007-10-11 Thread Zoltan Kota
Thanks! It works. Zoltan On 10/11/07, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The manual for the program is being revised for the moment, and after that > revision, I'm sure this issue will be well explained in the documentation. > > The short answer is that you should replace > << {gis8 (

Re: lyric problem

2007-10-11 Thread Mats Bengtsson
The manual for the program is being revised for the moment, and after that revision, I'm sure this issue will be well explained in the documentation. The short answer is that you should replace << {gis8 (fis16 e~ e2.)} \\ {b1} >> | r1 \bar "||" by << {\voiceOne gis8 (fis16 e~ e2.)} \new Voice {\v