Hi Ben, Thanks, that helps. When I use the underscore, lilypond is placing the first tick (under the b-flat) lower down than the others; do you know why this is? I would like them to all be parallel.
source: https://gist.github.com/gmoothart/6954226 output: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84432/chant.pdf TIA, Gabe On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:46 PM, SoundsFromSound <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Gabe, > > Welcome to LilyPond! > > If you'd like to put a note in parenthesis, simply add this command: > \parenthesize > > ...to whichever pitches you which to enclose. > > > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#parentheses > > If you want to put simple text/characters below a note, just use this: > > _" your text here or characters " > > (underscore and then your text in quotes) > > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-text > > Hope this helps, > Ben > > > Gabe Moothart wrote > > Hello! > > I am new to lilypond, and I'm trying to layout a psalm chanted in > > plainsong, so that the output should look something like this: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84432/psalm_example.png > > > > So far I have this: > > https://gist.github.com/gmoothart/6929479 > > > > which renders like so: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84432/ps149.pdf > > > > Any comments/suggestions are helpful, but I think my biggest questions > > are: > > 1) How to create the "bar" in the music (I've inserted rests just to show > > where they go) ? > > 2) How to add parentheses around the "optional" notes, as in the example > > 3) How to add markings directly below the music (the ticks and slashes in > > the example) > > 4) how to add an "umlaut" over a letter as in the example. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. So far I'm very impressed with lilypond! > > Gabe > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > > lilypond-user@ > > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > > ----- > composer | sound designer > LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/laying-out-plainsong-chant-tp152101p152102.html > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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