On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 00:10:38 +0100 Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For the "common lyrics" sections, you could use blank > > lyrics. > > Yes, I read through every obvious piece of documentation, > except the internals part, which I'm still unable to > understand. I tried to avoid inserting long empty lyrics, > which seem 'fragile' (it would take me four tries on average > to get the timing right) and don't show/catch the real > situation.
Er, yes. That's true. Hmm... IIRC, each "_" corresponds to one note. So you can count how many notes you have in a phrase, and then put in the corresponding number of _s. If you're doing a small piece. Sorry, I don't really know lyrics that well -- I've only written a one-page peice that uses lyrics; everything else I do doesn't have any singers. > In the manual section about repeats there is a > short note about using \repeat fold to stack lyrics, this is > what I use currently. However, it has some alignment > issues, which I tried to explain in my first letter. And > still no mention of vertical centering of common parts... > Am I asking too much? My experience is that Lilypond can do anything; the only trouble is how messy it is to get what you want. You can insert raw TeX commands into a lilypond file, and TeX can do anything. (it's kind-of like using assembly in a C program) I'm certain you don't need to go to that extreme, but I don't know enough about lyrics and/or scheme to help you further. I suggest you try reading the advanced sections of the manual -- I'm certain the answer is there. Good luck. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
