Re: Verses with Different Rhythms

[Edward Sanford Sutton, III]

On Monday April 19 2004 07:16, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> It seems that you use version 2.2, which includes new support
> for exactly this situation with different number of syllables
> in different verses, using the ignoreMelismata property.
> See
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/The-Lyrics
>-context.html#The%20Lyrics%20context and the referenced example.
>
> Regarding the dashed slurs, it seems this feature has never been
> implemented for Ties, only for slurs. For some strange reason, the
> \tieDotted macro is predefined anyway. I'll post a bug report.
>
>     /Mats

  A piece I am typesetting had a similar issue I ran into. The notes were 
equivalent to  << { c4 } \\ { c8 c } >>  or whatever the polyphony notation 
is; lyrics just skipped the polyphony attempts anyways. Stanza 1 was the 
hyphenated lyric and stanza 2 had a single word. The typesetting also had all 
lyrical notes unbeamed.
  After talking to people and putting thought into it, I planned to change it 
to something like  c8( c)  as the other seemed wrong and I couldn't figure 
out how to properly implement it in lilypond; \melisma and \melismaEnd should 
do it and I cant remember if it didn't work or I couldn't figure out to do 
that. I also plan to change it to beamed vocal notes.


> Jean Connelly wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks a bunch to Mats for the help with inserting multiple words under
> > the same note.  I can't believe I missed that in the lyric section.
> > Anyway, now my problem is I can't figure out a good way to line up lyrics
> > properly when there are ties or slurs that differ from verse to verse.
> > Here is my project:
> >
> >
> > \score {
> >   \notes {
> >   <<
> >   \context Voice = "all" {
> >   \clef treble \cadenzaOn \tieDotted e'1 fis'2~ fis'2 g'1
> >   }
> >   \lyricsto "all" \new Lyrics \lyrics {
> >   \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #-1
> >   "All who see me" scoff at me
> >   }
> >   \lyricsto "all" \new Lyrics \lyrics {
> >   \override LyricText #'self-alignment-X = #-1
> >    "Indeed many dogs surr" -- round __ me
> >   }
> >
> >   }
> > }
> >
> >
> > First, my \tieDotted doesn't seem to be doing anything.  Do I have that
> > in the wrong place?
> >
> > Then, I want the word "at" in the first verse to line up under the third
> > note.  Because of the tie, it refuses.  I can't seem to get the extender
> > line on "round" that I want unless I have the tie.  So I'm stuck.
> >
> > I've played games in other packages like Finale with invisible voices and
> > such, but I was hoping that I wouldn't have to get in to that.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > Jean
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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