Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 6/4/07, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trevor Bača wrote: > > Oh cool Devnull magic; (if I had turned over to 7.3.7.5 "Lyrics > independent of notes" I could have found it there). > > Is it possible to use the Devnull context as a general type of > "reference voice" maker for items

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Bača wrote: Oh cool Devnull magic; (if I had turned over to 7.3.7.5 "Lyrics independent of notes" I could have found it there). Is it possible to use the Devnull context as a general type of "reference voice" maker for items other than lyrics? Something like this to rhythmically positio

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Of course, in many cases the most convenient solution is to simply specify the rhythm directly in the Lyrics (except that there seems to be some bug there, as mentioned in a previous email). \version "2.10.0" \new Staff << \new Voice { \time 3/4 c'4 c'2 } \new Lyrics \lyricmode { o

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Jones
This is exactly what I need, thank you! As Trevor suggests I'm looking for something like beat counts. I'm using lyrics to annotate harmonic changes which usually, but not always, follow a base voice. Alan On 6/4/07, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not use the method described in

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 6/4/07, Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not use the method described in the manual , section "Lyrics independent of notes"? Here's Trevor's example using that technique: \version "2.10.0" \new Staff << \new Voice { \time 3/4 c'4 c'2 } \new Devnull = "ref" {

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Why not use the method described in the manual , section "Lyrics independent of notes"? Here's Trevor's example using that technique: \version "2.10.0" \new Staff << \new Voice { \time 3/4 c'4 c'2 } \new Devnull = "ref" { c'4 c'4 c'4 } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "ref" { one two t

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Trevor Bača
On 6/4/07, Stan Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 3, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Alan Jones wrote: > Hi, > I need a way to specify which beats the words of my > lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are > associated with. In the attached example I have > three words that I want on

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-04 Thread Stan Sanderson
On Jun 3, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Alan Jones wrote: Hi, I need a way to specify which beats the words of my lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are associated with. In the attached example I have three words that I want on the corresponding beats: one, two, three. However, because the

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-03 Thread Rune Zedeler
Alan Jones wrote: I need a way to specify which beats the words of my lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are associated with. I think your problem are somehow related to a weird bug in latest lilypond versions. I have posted a bug-report on the bug-list. -Rune

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-03 Thread Curt Siffert
Sounds like the opposite of melisma. You want the words to track the notes. In melisma it's multiple notes per syllable. Here he might have multiple syllables per note. Which will sometimes happen in the case of multiple verses written under a melody line. (Although there is usually

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-03 Thread David Rogers
On Jun 3 2007, at 19:41, Alan Jones wrote: I need a way to specify which beats the words of my lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are associated with. In the attached example I have three words that I want on the corresponding beats: one, two, three. However, because the voice

lyrics free from notes

2007-06-03 Thread Alan Jones
Hi, I need a way to specify which beats the words of my lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are associated with. In the attached example I have three words that I want on the corresponding beats: one, two, three. However, because the voice has a half note for the last two beats Lil