Re: Just chords and lyrics.

[David Stocker]

If I may...

> BTW I'm not sure whether this topic belongs in fretted strings or in 
> chords or what.  Any thoughts?  
From an editorial point of view, I think this should find a home in a 
sub-section titled "Song Sheets" or something similar under "Vocal 
Music." I don't believe it belongs under "Fretted Instruments."

Just my two cents.

Dave

Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> > On 11/28/08 4:47 AM, "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden> 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.
> >
> > When I used it to align lyrics to partcombined music, I simply 
> > transposed
> > the voice I used with lyricsto up an octave, and everything seemed to 
> > work
> > fine.
> >
> > Carl
>
> Carl,
>
> I sort of lost track of this but now that the semester is over I can 
> update the docs about this topic and put my examples of "just chords & 
> lyrics" either right in the docs or send to Valentin for the snippet 
> list.  When you get a chance would you send me the latest .itely file? 
> BTW I'm not sure whether this topic belongs in fretted strings or in 
> chords or what.  Any thoughts?  The fretted-strings.itely file used to 
> have the @TODO about it, but it could just as easily go in a different 
> place.
>
> Jon