Hello,
> 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.
This could be a use-case for tags — see snippet, below.
I hope this helps!
Kieren.
%%%% SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.19.50"
hisher = \lyricmode {
\tag #'male { his }
\tag #'female { her }
\tag #'malefemale { his/her }
}
heshe = \lyricmode {
\tag #'male { he }
\tag #'female { she }
\tag #'malefemale { he/she }
}
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'
}
\markup "Male Version:"
\new Staff \keepWithTag #'male <<
\new Voice = "mel" { \global \music }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { \verse }
>>
\markup "Female Version:"
\new Staff \keepWithTag #'female <<
\new Voice = "mel" { \global \music }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { \verse }
>>
\markup "Male/Female Version:"
\new Staff \keepWithTag #'malefemale <<
\new Voice = "mel" { \global \music }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { \verse }
>>
%%%% SNIPPET ENDS
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Kieren MacMillan, composer
‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
‣ email: [email protected]
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