What I think that I want to do may simply be impossible -- I'll say that at the start.
When I see full scores for a number of songs published, it is clear that the reason that various verses are printed separately is that one or more bars have significantly different rhythm from the first verse. But, when attempting to publish a score with the goals of: 1) fit it all on one or at most two A4 sheets 2) put the lyrics under the score (melody line) 3) put guitar chords above the score The case of a quarter note split into two eighth notes with a dotted tie and \set \ignoreMelismata = ##t \unset \ignoreMelismata in the lyrics works for most cases, but I'm dealing with variations that don't easily fit this solution. I'm left with a dilemma -- on the score I'm engraving at present, Tom Paxton's "Marvellous Toy" it is becoming clear that I've got at least one bar where the first verse should be b4 b b8 a g4 and one of the other verses looks like b4 b b g And I'm fairly certain that I need to replace a: 4. 8 4 with a triplet in another instance Is there a possible way to show variant notes in a bar with lyrics optionally binding to one or the other? I'm guessing that the answer is "no" since publishers like to reduce the page count, where possible. And I've never seen this done. So, I won't be too frustrated if the answer is, "It can't be done" Cheers and thanks -Don -- Don Gingrich [email protected] _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
