Re: Suppressing staff

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Helge Kruse" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 5:25 PM
Subject: Suppressing staff


> Hello,
>
> I have a piece for singer and piano. I want to write the notes for the 
> piano. The words should be written above the piano notes as the would 
> appear when the singer's staff is visible. But since the piano melody is 
> mostly the same as the singer's melody the singers staff should be hidden 
> in most lines.
> Two measures are different. Here I would like to write print the singer's 
> notes.
>
> How can I suppress the singers staff but keep the words above the piano 
> staves?
>
> \version "2.16.0"
>
> common = { \key g\major \time 3/4 }
> words = \lyricmode {
>   La, la la, la. }
> singer = \relative c'' {
>   \common
>   b a g fis }
> pianoRight = \relative c'' {
>   \common
> << {b a g fis } \\ { <e c>2. } >>  }
> pianoLeft = \relative c {
>   \common
>   \clef bass d4. d8 d,4 g2 }
>
> \score {
> <<
>     \new Staff { <<  \new Voice = "one" \singer >> }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" { \words }
>     \new PianoStaff <<
>       \new Staff { <<  \pianoRight >> }
>       \new Staff { <<  \pianoLeft >> }
> >>
> >>
> }

Give the piano the lyrics?

\score {
<<
    \new Staff { <<  \new Voice = "one" \singer >> }
    \new PianoStaff <<
      \new Staff = "pianoRH" { <<  \pianoRight >> }
      \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "pianoRH" } \lyricsto "1" { 
\words }
      \new Staff { <<  \pianoLeft >> }
>>
>>
}


I've used the voice context "1" since you've used implicit voices in your 
example.  You might want to name the voices explicitly, in which case the 
name would change.

--
Phil Holmes