lyrics on skips

2003-07-31 Thread Fulko van Westrenen
Hello, I would like to set lyrics on skips, text without melody. Is that possible without very clever lilypond-tweaking? Thanks, Fulko ___ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lyrics on skips

2003-07-31 Thread Fulko van Westrenen
Hello, Some of you assumed that I wanted to add text to the end, but that is not the case: lilypond-book would have done a fine job. I want to add some text in the middle of a piece, but that text has no melody. The accompanying(?) music continues, but that small piece of text goes without

fontshapes in lyrics

2003-03-29 Thread Fulko van Westrenen
Hello, I would like to use different fontshapes in lyrics. Within one line I require regular, bold and italics/slanted to select the group singing. Looking at the .tex file it looks like this cannot be accomplished easily. Writing a perl script to add fontselectors is not my first option.

adding extra white

2003-03-01 Thread Fulko van Westrenen
Hello, The more I typeset, the more questions I have. I would like to add some extra white between groups of notes, small melodical patterns. At the moment I do that using \bar, but the white is very small, I cannot ajust it, and it feels clumbsy. Is there something like the LaTeX \hspace{} in

special rests

2003-02-26 Thread Fulko van Westrenen
Hello, I try to set some barless music, a modern variant of Gregoriant chant. There are no normal bars: bars are only used to separate the different parts. The notes have no stems, only quarters and halves are used. This is no problem using Lilypond. You only need lots of spaces (s1,s2,...).

Re: special rests [2]

2003-02-26 Thread Fulko van Westrenen
Hello, Thank you for the help. The input/test/rests.ly file was very usefull. I use \property Staff.Rest \set #'style = #'neo_mensural All looks very nice now. Some wondered why I use stempUp/Down. I need that for a proper placement of some notes, because sometimes a half-note is completely