On Fri 24 Jun 2016 at 13:17:02 (+1000), Don Gingrich wrote: > 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"
It depends on what you find acceptable. Here are two possibilities. I wrote the first as an exercise in connection with a thread about repeats a while back. The second is really just cobbled together. I haven't got time to fiddle about with the exact placement of the words relative to ossias. Cheers, David.
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