Re: Newby questions

[Daniel Hulme]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:55:56AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
[...]
>     \new Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }
>     \new Lyrics = sopranosb { s2 }
[...]

> My question is about the "\new Lyrics"  command. What's the {s1}
> referring to? It uses "sopransob" to find the right set of lyrics.
> When I had four verses, I used s1, s2, s3, and s4.  got an error
> message saying that 3 is not a duration. True, but what's that got to
> do with anything.

s is a special note that works like a rest but doesn't generate any
visible output. To put it another way, it generates a space in the
score. (You can think of s as short for "spacer" or "skip", just like r
is short for rest.) So s1 is a space a bar long, s2 is a space a
half-note (minim) long, and s3 is meaningless. It has nothing to do with
verse numbers at all: it's just there to make sure Lilypond doesn't
think your new Lyrics context is empty.

-- 
Only this,  that it is  better to  use "whom"  when  in doubt,  and even
better to reword the statement, and leave out all the relative pronouns,
except ad, ante,  con, in, inter,  ob, post, prae,  pro, sub, and super.
 -- James Thurber, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Guide to Modern English Usage

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