Tim,
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Tim Slattery [via Lilypond] <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm setting a song with two verses. It's a madrigal, so there are
> fairly long stretches of "fa la la..." that are identical in the two
> verses. I'd like to have them "fa la la" part printed only once.
>
> So...I've set verse one with all the words, including "fa la la".
> That's fine. I'd like to have verse two show only the different words,
> and leave a space where the "fa la la" is.
>
> But I can't figure out how to tell Lily to not match word to the
> stretch of notes that correspond to the "fa la la" for the second
> verse.
>
> It looks like I could use \skip ... but I'd have to have one for each
> note to be skipped. Is there a way to tell Lilypond how many notes or
> measures to skip?
>
Yes, use \skip. However, the duration you give it is not important--it will
still skip just one syllable. So, use
\repeat unfold N { \skip 4 }
where N is the number of syllables to skip.
Next time, please provide a small compilable example of what you are trying
so we have something to go off. Thanks!
HTH,
Abraham
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