Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-18 Thread ayutheos
Thanks Colins! Downloaded and tried out Frescobaldi, it makes writing out music so much easier. Regards, -- TY ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-17 Thread Colin Campbell
On 11/17/2013 08:27 PM, ayutheos wrote: I found out that it's easier to write out music in Lilypond by outlining the overall structure of my music (as given in Jim's reply above) using simple bits of notes, testing out the structure then 'fleshing' it out adding other bits and pieces. There's st

Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-17 Thread ayutheos
> Please "reply all" so everyone can see the conversation. Sorry about that... I was hoping to find a user forum of some sort to ask questions and I find that the community here uses mailing list for it. I'm not too familiar with the workings of it :p Yup, I used voices to define sections of my m

Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-17 Thread ayutheos
Thank you all for all the replies! I used the voices method and it worked perfectly. My song is now structured as http://pastebin.com/0wsFibyx. I was previously using ABC notation for writing out single staff musics. I changed to Lilypond because ABC does not support lyrics in Asian text. Admitte

Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-17 Thread David Stocker
On 11/16/2013 10:41 PM, ayutheos wrote: Hi David, Yes, I noticed that my replies are not showing on the list, just my question posts. How do I reply to the list so that others can see? I'm using the web interface to read the posts at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user, and replying

Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-16 Thread David Stocker
Hi Ayutheos, Please "reply all" so everyone can see the conversation. On 11/16/2013 9:48 PM, ayutheos wrote: I found this in the documentation http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/rhythms#rhythms-skips-in-lyric-mode But I can't get the lyrics to skip more than 1 note. Say f

Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-16 Thread Jim Long
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 09:50:16AM +0800, ayutheos wrote: > I have a song consisting of a single staff which has the following structure: > > (1) Intro | (2) Part one | (3) Music only | (4) Part two > > How do I add lyrics to Parts One and Two only? melodyA = { c'4 c' c' c' } melodyB = { c'4 c'

Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-16 Thread David Stocker
\skip http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-rests#index-_005cskip If you're using a development version, search find \skip in the index of the pertinent documentation. Hope that helps. Regards, David On 11/16/2013 8:51 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: How d

Re: Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-16 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 11/16/2013 07:50 PM, ayutheos wrote: > I have a song consisting of a single staff which has the following > structure: > > (1) Intro | (2) Part one | (3) Music only | (4) Part two > > How do I add lyrics to Parts One and Two only? Section (3) is a > short 4 bars of music. > > I've gone throug

Lyrics not starting on 1st bar of music

2013-11-16 Thread ayutheos
Hi, I have a song consisting of a single staff which has the following structure: (1) Intro | (2) Part one | (3) Music only | (4) Part two How do I add lyrics to Parts One and Two only? Section (3) is a short 4 bars of music. I've gone through the help documentations, but didn't find anything t