Re: lyrics and \skip

[Arjan Bos]

On 16 feb 2007, at 12:08, Dominic Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a song with two parts. The first has also one lyrics line (the
> refrain). the second part has three lyrics lines (the verses). I have
> the lyrics in the vars refrain, verseOne, verseTwo and verseThree.
>
> If I try to add them via \addlyrics, all lyrics begin at the first
> bar. Then I found the command \skip, but it only skips one note and
> things like mentioned in the manual "\skip 1*8" don´t work (also only
> skip one note).
>
> Is there a better way to do this than inserting hundreds of skips into
> the lyrics?
>
> Dominic

The solution proposed by Mats still completely eludes me. It does  
something with the difference between \new lyrics and \context lyrics  
and the differences are still not clear to me, even after using  
lilypond for more than 2 years.

The solution I have is very simple. I just insert the following in  
every .ly file and use some binary counting for my skips.

skipOne = \lyricmode { \skip 1 }
skipTwo = \lyricmode { \skipOne \skipOne }
skipFour = \lyricmode { \skipTwo \skipTwo }
skipSix = \lyricmode { \skipTwo \skipFour }
skipEight = \lyricmode {\skipFour \skipFour }
skipSixteen = \lyricmode {\skipEight \skipEight}
skipThirtytwo = \lyricmode {\skipSixteen \skipSixteen }

And if I then need a \skip 1 * 40  I simply insert a \skipThritytwo  
\skipEight into my lyrics.

HTH,
Arjan


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