Re: New lyrics trick available in 2.9.6

[Graham Percival]

Neat trick!  I've added it to the manual.  An example without tags 
might be useful to help explain it (although in practice this trick is 
probably better with tags); people interested in vocal music are 
invited to improve this section.  :)

Cheers,
- Graham

On 28-May-06, at 3:38 PM, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> 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