jurgen.lams...@telenet.be writes: > Hi all, > > I'm a complete newbie here, so please bare with me ;-) > > I already spent a couple of hours, reading all manuals and mailing > lists, trying to engrave something as simple as this: > > * > > Notice: the "full-measure rests" are not shown in the screenshot > (beginner piano book), but I want to engrave them anyway. Result: > please check lilypond attachment.
Good. Attaching your example document makes it easy to just add the required changes. > 2 problems: > > 1.cross-staff slur: > a. using the list archive, apparently a possible solution is changing staffs. > I'm > changing staffs from "right/upper" to "left/under" after note "c4", and then > I write > final note "b2." By doing that, apparently > there is also an empty 4th measure added automatically to the "right" > staff. Changing staves does not rewind time so you have to apply the rest in parallel. > b. It _does_ give a cross-staff slur, but it is not as "nice" as the > one in the screenshot. That one starts somewhere at the half of the > stem of "f4" and ends above lyric "round" that is centered above final > note "b2.". How can that be accomplished? You can relax some constraints. The below already looks more like what you are asking for. I'd probably not bother more than that. > But first the lyrics question... > > 2. lyrics > a. I have trouble finding a solution for the lyrics: I want a dash > between e.g. "Rid" and "ing" (one syllable per note) as in the > screenshot, but the slur between "e4" and "g2" prevents me from > getting the desired result. If I remove those round brackets (slur), > I'm still not getting "Rid - ing" but "Riding" in one word without a > dash. How can that be accomplished? I am using a phrasing slur here since that's apparently what you are doing (namely, indicating a legato execution but not continuing text/notes).
\version "2.18.2" right = << \relative c' { \tempo "Gracefully" \clef "treble" \key c \major \numericTimeSignature \time 3/4 e4\( g2\) |%m1/right g4\( e2\) |%m2/right f4-\tweak height-limit 5 \( d c |%m3/right << \new Voice { R2. } \change Staff = left b2.\) >> |%m4/left+right } \addlyrics { Rid -- ing | rid -- ing, | 'round and a -- round } >> left = \relative c' { \clef "bass" \key c \major \numericTimeSignature \time 3/4 R2. |%m1/left R2. |%m2/left R2. |%m3/left \skip 2. |%m4/left -> changed to left from right } pianoPart = \new PianoStaff \with { instrumentName = "Pno." } << \new Staff = "right" \right \new Staff = "left" \left >> \score { << \pianoPart % ... >> }
-- David Kastrup
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