lilypond questions

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I am typing in Erik Satie's Gymnopedies (piano music) and I have a few
> questions about lilypond:
> 
> 1) In the original, there is a middle "voice" which contains chords on
>    both the treble and bass clefs (to make it easier to identify notes
>    several lines above or below the staff).  I'm not sure how to enter
>    this into lilypond, or if maybe there is a better alternative.  For
>    example, see http://plover.net/~thumper/gymnop.png for a bit that I
>    scanned in.

LilyPond doesn't yet support cross-staff stems; You'll have to split
the chords between the two staffs.

> 2) If I want to have an extra voice for just one measure, I would like
>    to be able to do something like <{e2.} {r4 b' e}>, but this gives a
>    warning about adding note head to incompatible stem (I assume it is
>    talking about the rest).  The output looks mostly fine, but what do
>    I do to fix the warning?

try

   < \context Voice = othervoice e2. {, r4 b' e } >


> 3) How do I enter phrasing marks (curved lines above the staff)?  This
>    is probably obvious, but I cannot find anything in the manual about
>    it.  I assume I'm not just supposed to use slur marks?

Use slur marks.

> 4) In the title, I'd like to have a bit be superscripted.  I am no TeX
>    expert, so I'm not sure how to do this.  I tried entering math mode
>    but couldn't get it to work quite right.  "1$^{ere}$ Gymnopedie" or
>    so is what I'd like.  I tried throwing backslashes at it, but still
>    no luck.

How about

    title = "1$^\\textrm{ere} Gymnop\\'edie" ;


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