And both do exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you Mr. Kastrup and Mr.
Liska!


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:15 PM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:

> [email protected] writes:
>
> > In a vocal part I am notating, while the singer mostly
> > sings notated pitches, there are a few parts
> > where the singer will speak text in notated
> > rhythm.
> >
> > When this is done is scores that I have seen,
> > sometimes it is done with just stems, flags and
> > beams (but no note heads) such as in
> > the Charles Ives song "Charlie Rutlage".
> > I have also seen it just written with
> > the note heads as "x"s on a stave (such as
> > with a percussion score).  How does
> > one go about implementing either method
> > in lilypond?  I do prefer the latter, though.
>
> Here are two variants for 2.19.0 (with earlier versions, you'll need to
> repeat the pitch before each duration in the rhythmic section):
>
> \version "2.19.0"
> \new Voice { \xNote { c'' 4 4. 8 8 8 1 } }
> \new Voice \relative { c''4 d e f
>                        \temporary\override NoteHead.style = #'slash
>                        b, 4 4. 8 8 8 1
>                        \revert NoteHead.style
>                        a1
>                      }
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>
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