Re: No lyrics for first 8 bars

[Dominic Neumann]

There are - at least - two ways.

The quick and dirty one is to substitute the _ _ _ by \repeat unfold
20 { \skip 1 }
(where 20 should be the number of notes).

The more elegant way can be found here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00190.html

(I myself always use the first way :-/)


Dominic


2007/10/28, sjha <address@hidden>:
>
> Hopefully a simple question...I have a jazz lead sheet with melody, chords
> and lyrics. However the first 8 bars are an introduction without lyrics. The
> only way I have managed to achieve this is in \lyricmode is by counting the
> number of notes and inserting the same number of underscores (_ _ _ etc).
> This seems very inelegant. Is there not a better way of instructing the
> lyrics to start only at bar 9?