On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 19:30 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Henry Law <[email protected]> writes: > > > 3. On 28/03/16 13:05, Christoph Friedrich wrote: > >> refrain-empty = \lyricmode { > >> " " " " " " " " " " " " > >> } > > > > (Blush) no it isn't. I'd used underscores, which seemed to work. > > Yes, I know not to do that now. > > Why? I think that's what the underscores are actually for.
There is a comment in the docs saying that underscores are for melisma and that \skip is good otherwise. This came up recently in the denemo list, I put in a command to take a selection of notes and create a \skip for the appropriate number of syllables, as the only thing I could suggest otherwise was melisma. This thread illustrates how much more flexible direct access to LilyPond is than using a graphical front end: the syntax with two \new Voices in serial, one for the verse and one for the chorus wouldn't fit the rigid Denemo framework. (OTOH having a GUI does mean you can just drag over the notes and hit skip, rather than counting up the syllables). Richard _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
