Re: stanza set to AABA tune

2010-01-21 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote: You can repeat only complete music fragments. You can't use repeat inside a \lyricmode block Of course you can: \relative c'{c d e f g f e c } \addlyrics{First \repeat unfold 6 { and } last. } /Mats ___ lil

Re: stanza set to AABA tune

2010-01-20 Thread David Olson
Thanks everybody. In the meantime, I created dummy unnumbered stanzas, and it worked. The info from Francisco Vila is very useful and I'll start using it. Thanks again, David Olson ___ lilypond-user

Re: stanza set to AABA tune

2010-01-20 Thread Kieren MacMillan
HI David, > Do I need to name the repeated section and then integrate it in the "score" > section? Here's a hint: \version "2.10.0" \header { title = "Friendship (8-7 8-7 8-8-8-7)" piece = "Early American" composer = "G. Cook" } #(set-default-paper-size "letter" 'portrait) stanzaOneA =

Re: stanza set to AABA tune

2010-01-20 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
Wow, that's cool. Francisco Vila wrote: 2010/1/20 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) : You can repeat only complete music fragments. You can't use repeat inside a \lyricmode block Yes, you can: stanzaOne = \lyricmode { do re mi \repeat unfold 2 { one two three } } << \new Staff { \time 3

Re: stanza set to AABA tune

2010-01-20 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/1/20 David Olson : > \repeat { > one two three > } Firstly, check that you are following the syntax of the \repeat command: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Long-repeats.html#Normal-repeats -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com

Re: stanza set to AABA tune

2010-01-20 Thread Francisco Vila
2010/1/20 Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) : > You can repeat only complete music fragments. You can't use repeat inside a > \lyricmode block Yes, you can: stanzaOne = \lyricmode { do re mi \repeat unfold 2 { one two three } } << \new Staff { \time 3/4 c' d' e' \repeat unfold 2 { c' d' e' } } \new

Re: stanza set to AABA tune

2010-01-20 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
You can repeat only complete music fragments. You can't use repeat inside a \lyricmode block David Olson wrote: I described my problem on this webpage: Suppose the music is "c d e c d e" and the words are "do re mi one two three" The music repea

stanza set to AABA tune

2010-01-20 Thread David Olson
I described my problem on this webpage: Suppose the music is "c d e c d e" and the words are "do re mi one two three" The music repeats "|:" c4 d e ":|" If I write stanzaOne = \lyricmode { do re mi \repeat { one two three } } it does not compile -