Re: Vocal Lyric Placement?

[Arvid Grøtting]

In article <address@hidden>,
 "Gianluca D." <address@hidden> wrote:

> Alle 23:06, venerdì 2 dicembre 2005, Ian Hawthorn ha scritto:
> 
> > I can tell you that what you are asking is a hard problem, so don't get
> > your hopes up that there is an easy answer. 
> 
> The answer is quite easy, once you have learned to use the wonderful ability 
> of Lilypond to merge different music expressions into one context.

There is another answer, too, almost as simple, for those of us that 
like to keep the e.g. first tenor music within a single musical 
expression:

- use "\skip 8" (or some other duration; it's not used within \lyricsto) 
instead of "_" for the "blanks" in lyrics.

- to avoid wasting space in the first system, also "\override 
Score.RemoveEmptyVerticalGroup #'remove-first = ##t".

When the amount of lyrics specific to a voice is very small, consider 
not using \lyricsto (or \addlyrics) at all, and rather specify the 
durations manually (\lyricmode{ \skip 1*15 Bee 4 Bop 8 }).

Example code: http://regina.uio.no/~arvidg/Norges_Fjeld.ly
Resulting PDF: http://regina.uio.no/~arvidg/Norges_Fjeld.pdf

Cheers,

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Arvid