Re: Indent only one system, replace long extender with dashes

[Alexander Kobel]

Frederick Dennis wrote:
> Dear All,
> \version "2.12.2"
> How do you indent just one system?

Hi, Frederick,

perhaps I'm just tired, but no idea right now for this one.

> Also, the section is voices singing: "Ah".
> I used a hidden slur to get an extender

...which is not what you should do. Have a look at \melisma and \melismaEnd.

> but would rather have a line of dashes
> as the extenders look ugly to my mind.
> How do I replace a long extender with
> a row of dashes?

Look at the attached file. You might want to play around with all the 
properties of the lyric-hyphen-interface (see 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/internals/lyric_002dhyphen_002dinterface#lyric_002dhyphen_002dinterface), 
since those are not set by default for LyricExtenders. I also added a 
little offset in X-direction - if you also think the extender is too 
short without this override, you could also try a hidden note as the 
last one in the melisma, but for me this looks worse since it corrupts 
the overall spacing. Your mileage may vary, though.


Cheers,
Alexander

mel = { c4\melisma d e f8 g\melismaEnd | \break c1 }
% with hidden note: (instead of the third override)
% mel = { c4\melisma d e f8[ g8*1/2] \hideNotes g\unHideNotes \melismaEnd | 
\break c1 }
lyr = \lyricmode {
        \once \override Lyrics . LyricExtender #'stencil = 
#ly:lyric-hyphen::print
        \once \override Lyrics . LyricExtender #'dash-period = #2.5
        \once \override Lyrics . LyricExtender #'extra-offset = #'(2 . 0)
        long-melisma __ next-syllable
}

\score {
        <<
                \new Staff \new Voice = "mel" \mel
                \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" \lyr
        >>
}