Re: Just chords and lyrics.

[Jonathan Kulp]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> There's major problem with your proposed \hideAll (or whatever you want 
> to call it), namely
> that the hidden voice will influence the placement of the other voices, 
> since LilyPond will
> try to avoid collisions with the hidden note heads. Therefore, this 
> solution is not really working
> if you want to use it to align lyrics to a hidden Voice in a Staff that 
> also contains other voices.
>
>    /Mats
>
> Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Graham Percival wrote Friday, November 28, 2008 10:42 AM
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:04:50AM -0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > >
> > > ok, let's make a \hideNotation or \hideAll or something like that
> > > for printing lyrics + chords.
> >
> > \hideNotation is a bit too close to \hideNotes.
> >
> > \hideAll, \unHideAll looks good.  The documentation can say it applies
> > to the Voice, not the Staff.
> >
> > Trevor

Given the problem Mats points out, my inclination is to keep the example 
using all the overrides as a snippet.  People who want to use a 
\hideAllVoiceNotation sort of command can create one themselves using 
\hideNotes and my snippet as a starting point, and store their 
definition either in the file they're working on or in a definitions.ly 
file as described in the Learning Manual 5.1.5 "Style Sheets."  The 
examples using "\new Devnull" can go in the main text of the docs since 
they have no overrides.

Best,

Jon
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