RE: Three Questions

[Nahum Wengrov]

>>>Read Section "8.3.2 Hiding staves" and don't forget about the 
>>>remove-first option. Lyrics work this way by default.
>>
>>Thanks, I already got an answer here to this question. I used "
>>\context { \Staff \remove Time_signature_engraver }" in my \layout 
>>statement.
>
>Yes, but I hope you agree that it's a better solution to make a single
>score for the full piece.


Ok, I'll check this option. Thanks.


>>>>3) How do I coax Lilypond into displaying the extra word "There" at
>>>>the end of the 2nd (middle) Lyrics line of that same music line? The
Voice 
>>>>staff has a polyphony, i.e. an 8th rest on top and two connected 16ths 
>>>>beneath.
>>> 
>>>You mean that you want two syllables to be associated with
>>>a single note. Just write them within double quotes, "two words" or 
>>>exploit the fact that an underscore is treated as a space: two_words.
>>
>>No, I don't mean that. I want the last note to be assosiated with a
>>rest, that has notes beneath it in polyphony.
>
>One possibility is to skip the automatic association between lyrics and
>Notes (i.e. to skip \addlyrics and \lyricsto) and explicitly specify the 
>duration of each syllable manually. 


I think I'll try that, unless your 2nd solution works!


>A much better solution is to associate
>the lyrics with the notes beneath the rest.


How do I do that?


>>Oops. Sorry about that. I'll be posting both the .png and the .ly files
>>to my website then.
>
>Since you didn't provide any link to this website, we can still not give 
>More constructive feedback.

The image:
http://www.geocities.com/novartza/Images/Piratical_Ballad.png
The .ly file:
http://www.geocities.com/novartza/Images/Pirates.ly