Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/17 Colin Campbell c...@shaw.ca: PS: @Janek: would a library of templates, not snippets, be a useful test for a workflow management system? Blimey, i've almost missed this email! Please cc me when you have a question for me, as i'm not able to read the whole list. To answer your

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/17 David Kastrup d...@gnu.org: Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: With my template system, most hymns take me 1/2 an hour at most, and probably 85% of that is music input, 10% of it is linking the template files together, and 5% of that is fixing input errors. So here is

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Eluze
the alignment correctly. Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lyrics-to-hymn-new-user-tp152216p152553.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user

RE: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Eduardo Silva
Hi, Carl. I like your sample. What do you do to make the verses left aligned (and possibly shifted) at the start of a new system? Do you do it manually? I know one could do it fairly easy if at the start of every new verse in the lyrics one could put the directive to align the syllable to the

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Eduardo Silva eduardo.su...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi, Carl. I like your sample. What do you do to make the verses left aligned (and possibly shifted) at the start of a new system? Do you do it manually? I know one could do it fairly easy if at the start of every

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/18 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: Someone on the list (I can't remember who, precisely) wrote a macro that allows one to left-align all the lyric syllables at an arbitrary musical point. It looks at all the syllables at that point, figures out the longest one (as typeset),

RE: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Eduardo Silva
From: janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:36:20 +0200 Subject: Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user To: carlopeter...@gmail.com CC: eduardo.su...@hotmail.com; lilypond-user@gnu.org 2013/10/18 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: Someone on the list (I can't remember who

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/18 Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com: 2013/10/18 Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com: Someone on the list (I can't remember who, precisely) wrote a macro that allows one to left-align all the lyric syllables at an arbitrary musical point. It looks at all the syllables at that

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-18 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/10/18 Eduardo Silva eduardo.su...@hotmail.com: Thank you, Carl and Janek. Awesome stuff. I liked your simple introduction to Lilypond, Janek, even though I don't speak any polish ;-) I'm glad you liked it :-) ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-17 Thread Garrett McGilvray
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com wrote: So this would be your basic setup: \score { \new Staff = top { \new Voice = sopVerse { } % voice for verse melody and combined alto \new Voice = altoVerse { } % voice for verse alto lines that

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-17 Thread Thomas Morley
2013/10/17 Garrett McGilvray garrett.mcgilv...@gmail.com: On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com wrote: So this would be your basic setup: \score { \new Staff = top { \new Voice = sopVerse { } % voice for verse melody and combined alto \new

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-17 Thread Eluze
Lyrics =lyrics \lyricsto sopChorus { four five six } % Or \new ... to have the lyrics on different lines } Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Lyrics-to-hymn-new-user-tp152216p152523.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-17 Thread Carl Peterson
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Garrett McGilvray garrett.mcgilv...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com wrote: So this would be your basic setup: \score { \new Staff = top { \new Voice = sopVerse { } % voice for verse melody and

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-17 Thread Garrett McGilvray
Hi Folks. I thank you all for your continued help. Thomas Morley-2 wrote don't put \new Lyrics _into_ the Staff. This one line showed me the essence of my error, so I am able to work from there. Now that I look at it, it does look like a newbie error, but I just wasn't seeing it before.

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-16 Thread Garrett McGilvray
On Oct 13, 2013, at 8:44 PM, Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com wrote: To your specific issue, what you would do is use skips to get the notes where they need to be. For instance, if you were to define variables outside the score block for the parts, sopVerse = { c' g'4 c' f' c'

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-16 Thread David Kastrup
Garrett McGilvray garrett.mcgilv...@gmail.com writes: truth is that I'm finding that the results are just better and require a lot less fighting to get right, and all that thanks to a community of people who are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. For myself, I feel entitled to

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-16 Thread Carl Peterson
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Garrett McGilvray garrett.mcgilv...@gmail.com wrote: And thanks also to the several who gave their thoughts to whether I should reply to all. This is indeed a very helpful community of people. I'm coming from a background in occasional usage of Finale, and

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-16 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: With my template system, most hymns take me 1/2 an hour at most, and probably 85% of that is music input, 10% of it is linking the template files together, and 5% of that is fixing input errors. So here is the challenging question: what would be

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-16 Thread Colin Campbell
On 13-10-16 08:05 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com writes: With my template system, most hymns take me 1/2 an hour at most, and probably 85% of that is music input, 10% of it is linking the template files together, and 5% of that is fixing input errors. So here

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-16 Thread Garrett McGilvray
On Oct 16, 2013, at 9:05 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: So here is the challenging question: what would be required to have a hymn typesetter be able to look at the documentation of LilyPond, and start typesetting hymns with the delivered doc and styles within an hour? There are a

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-13 Thread Garrett McGilvray
Hi Carl, On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Carl Peterson carlopeter...@gmail.com wrote: The basic answer is that you ideally need two sequential sets of voice contexts, one for the verse, one for the chorus. So this would be your basic setup: \score { \new Staff = top { \new Voice

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-13 Thread Federico Bruni
2013/10/13 Garrett McGilvray garrett.mcgilv...@gmail.com PS. For anyone: is it proper etiquette to reply to all or just the person who responded? reply to all is the right thing (unless you want to really send a private message) ___ lilypond-user

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-13 Thread Carl Peterson
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Garrett McGilvray garrett.mcgilv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Carl, I am so very grateful for your help. I have taken some time to study your answer and do some practicing. I'm sorry to say that I'm still stuck. Where I am getting confused is how to make a partial

Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

2013-10-12 Thread Carl Peterson
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Garrett McGilvray garrett.mcgilv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, The short version of the question (I think) is this: how do you set a multi-measure rest when manually specifying lyric duration? -- If the short version isn't sufficient, here is what I am