Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On 11/02/2025 03:45, David Wright wrote: On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 12:00:23 (+), Raphael Mankin wrote: On 10/02/2025 10:17, Timothy Lanfear wrote: On 09/02/2025 10:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: Attached is a MWE. I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that they were ignored. S

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 12:00:23 (+), Raphael Mankin wrote: > On 10/02/2025 10:17, Timothy Lanfear wrote: > > On 09/02/2025 10:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: > > > Attached is a MWE. > > > > > > I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that > > > they were ignored. So writing "rhythm4"

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On 10/02/2025 10:17, Timothy Lanfear wrote: On 09/02/2025 10:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: Attached is a MWE. I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that they were ignored. So writing "rhythm4" or "jer8 -- "ky8" does nothing. Switching the order of the voices in << ... >> mad

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 at 11:10, Raphael Mankin wrote: > > Attached is a MWE. > > I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that they were > ignored. So writing "rhythm4" or "jer8 -- "ky8" does nothing. That's because you use \addlyrics. As mentioned in the doc, this is the same as \ne

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On 09/02/2025 10:09, Raphael Mankin wrote: Attached is a MWE. I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that they were ignored. So writing "rhythm4" or "jer8 -- "ky8" does nothing. Switching the order of the voices in << ... >> made no difference; it always aligned to the short

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

Attached is a MWE. I tried using explicit syllable lengths, but it appears that they were ignored. So writing "rhythm4" or "jer8 -- "ky8" does nothing. Switching the order of the voices in << ... >> made no difference; it always aligned to the shorter notes. So " << c4 \\ {a8 a8 } >>" or "<

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On 07/02/2025 18:21, Timothy Lanfear wrote: On 07/02/2025 16:40, David Wright wrote: You can add the lyrics to the Staff instead of each voice. You just have to add _ to each set of lyrics so that there's a syllable for every moment in the staff, ie both voices. Following on from David's ti

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On 07/02/2025 16:40, David Wright wrote: You can add the lyrics to the Staff instead of each voice. You just have to add _ to each set of lyrics so that there's a syllable for every moment in the staff, ie both voices. Following on from David's tip, you could code your extract like this. I'd n

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On Fri 07 Feb 2025 at 15:03:09 (+), Raphael Mankin wrote: > On 07/02/2025 13:57, Brian Barker wrote: > > At 13:21 07/02/2025 +, you wrote: > > > Sometimes a song has slightly different rhythms in different verses, ... > > > Is there a neat way of setting such songs? All the ways that I > >

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On 07/02/2025 14:42, Knute Snortum wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM Raphael Mankin > wrote: __ Sometimes a song has slightly different rhythms in different verses, as in the (wonky) scan below Is there a neat way of setting such songs? All t

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 at 15:43, Knute Snortum wrote: > > To make two voices, use << { } \\ { } >> > To get a smaller notehead, try \magnifyMusic #2/3 { "note here" } > To keep the smaller notehead from merging with the larger, I'd try putting a very short spacer grace note in front of the smaller n

Re: Song verses with variant rhythms

On 07/02/2025 13:57, Brian Barker wrote: At 13:21 07/02/2025 +, you wrote: Sometimes a song has slightly different rhythms in different verses, ... Is there a neat way of setting such songs? All the ways that I can think of are somewhat of a faff. I'll leave the experts to suggest dupl