I have some hymns which are sung on the occasion of saint's days which
have pronouns which refers to the saint. Obviously, these pronouns
should be either "he", "his", "him" or "she", "her" depending on the
gender of the saint. When producing scores which are unattached to a
specific liturgy, I would put "he/she", "his/her", "him/her" in the
lyrics, however, when including the hymn in a specific liturgy, I would
like the pronoun to take the appropriate form. Is there a way to write
(scheme) functions that allows me to set a flag at the beginning of the
score indicating which pronoun type I want and the lyrics will change
accordingly.
MWE:
\version "2.18.2"
gender = m % manually set to m(ale), f(emale), n(eutral)
heshe = he % change to function which picks between "he" "she" and
"he/she" based on setting of \gender
hisher = his % change to function which picks between "his" "her" and
"his/her" based on setting of \gender
himher = him % change to function which picks between "him" "her" and
"him/her" based on setting of \gender
global = { \key c \major }
verse = \lyricmode {
Filled with the Spir -- it, by \hisher earth -- ly la -- bours,
Brought to your peo -- ple heal -- ing and com -- pas -- sion;
Rais -- ing the fal -- len, re -- con -- cil -- ing sin -- ners,
Glad -- ly \heshe served them.
}
music = {
c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c'
c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c'
c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c'
c' c' c' c' c'
}
\new Staff
<<
\new Voice = "mel" { \global \music }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { \verse }
>>
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Br. Samuel, OSB
St. Anselm’s Abbey
Washington, DC
(R. Padraic Springuel)
PAX ☧ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ
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