Hi Simon,
> huge respect for the kind of projects you are doing :)
Thanks — I need all the [psychological] help I can get! LOL
> Answering these questions is difficult because they can depend a lot on the
> specifics of the music and any solution can become cumbersome because of only
> a little instance that doesn’t fit the schematic.
Of course.
> A few thoughts:
>
> Trying out \partcombine quickly made me avoid it until absolutely necessary,
> but maybe it becomes manageable with clever and experienced use of
> \partCombineApart and friends. In choral pieces, I often use a single
> variable that contains all the lyrics, tagged depending on who does and
> doesn’t use which part and then filtered in the score setup. I believe that
> it makes a key difference to use both \keepWithTag _and_ \removeWithTag like
> this:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> text = \lyricmode {
> \tag A { on -- ly al -- to }
> \tag nA { ev’ -- ry -- one ex -- cept al -- to }
> }
#mindblown
Why didn’t I think of using set theory?!
THANK YOU! That hint alone makes your response gold.
>> 2. \addQuote everything and then \quoteDuring the appropriate sections? n.b.
>> I believe lyrics aren’t quoteable (right?)…
> I haven’t tried quoting lyrics, but I’ve often used a hybrid approach: quotes
> in the music, lyrics managed with tags.
Right.
I didn’t see an issue/request for quoting lyrics, so I added one
(https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6700) and we’ll see how the
discussion goes. :)
Thanks!
Kieren.
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