Re: New lyrics trick available in 2.9.6

[Mats Bengtsson]

I seem to remember that you or somebody else came up with another 
solution to the same problem some time ago, using
\addquote. However, this looks like a nice solution, even though the 
name DevNull only makes sense to UNIX hackers.

One standard situation where this would be useful is instrumental
parts for solo songs, especially recitatives, where there is no
space to include the music of the soloist in a separate stave, but you 
could at least fit in the lyrics. Think of Bach cantatas, for example.

  /Mats

Quoting Erik Sandberg <address@hidden>:

> Hi,
>
> As a side-effect of my recent cleanups in the 2.9 branch, there's a new trick
> for advanced uses of \lyricsto. If you want to do something very nonstandard
> in a line lyrics, so there's no voice that corresponds to the lyric line,
> then the previous solution has been to insert invisible notes.
>
> The new alternative trick, which IMHO is cleaner, is to align lyrics to a
> devnull context:
>
> \version "2.9.6"
>
> voice = {
>        \tag #'music { c''2 }
>        \tag #'lyrics { c''4. c''8 }
>        d''2
> }
>
> lyr = \lyricmode { "foo" "and" "bar" }
>
> <<
>  \new Staff \keepWithTag #'music \voice
>  \new Devnull="foo" \keepWithTag #'lyrics \voice
>  \new Lyrics \lyricsto "foo" \lyr
>  \new Staff { c'8 c' c' c' c' c' c' c'}
> > >
>
> What happens here, is that a Devnull context is created. Any music which goes
> into that context disappears silently, but lyricsto can still align notes to
> the notes.
>
> Graham: if you agree that this can be useful, then a similar example could be
> useful for the manual. For very complex vocal music, I imagine that this
> devnull trick can be convenient; consider e.g. a duet/dialogue where both
> voices are squeezed into the same staff in a partcombine-ish manner, it
> should be possible to just use tag to say which notes that belong to who.
>
> I have spoke to one person who tried lily but switched to another program
> because it was too difficult to enter such music.
>
> --
> Erik
>
>
>
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