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Re: How tosync lyrics
From: |
Mats Bengtsson |
Subject: |
Re: How tosync lyrics |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:07:02 +0100 |
> LilyPond supports two ways (correct me if...) to synchronize
> lyrics with music notes.
> 1) "Simply" via \simultaneous (<>) construct.
You mean, by specifying the rhythm in both the music and the lyrics.
> 2) Via \addlyrics construct.
>
> Using \addlyrics guards for inconsistencies
> and is in the spirit of saying things (the rhythm) only once.
Yes, and it hopefully saves some key strokes in the input.
> But on the other hand 'repeats' with different lyrics
> is problematic(?).
No, just do a \repeat fold with and empty repeat part and
the two text lines in two \alternative parts, see
input/star-spangled-banner.ly.
>
> Can anyone please add insights or recommendations
> on which is the 'right way' to do things.
There's no right or wrong, but there are several possibilities.
I guess you mostly save some work using the addlyrics feature,
though.
/Mats