Re: laying out plainsong chant

[SoundsFromSound]

Hi Gabe,

Welcome to LilyPond!

If you'd like to put a note in parenthesis, simply add this command:
\parenthesize 

...to whichever pitches you which to enclose.

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/inside-the-staff#parentheses

If you want to put simple text/characters below a note, just use this:

_" your text here or characters "

(underscore and then your text in quotes)

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/writing-text

Hope this helps,
Ben


Gabe Moothart wrote
> Hello!
> I am new to lilypond, and I'm trying to layout a psalm chanted in
> plainsong, so that the output should look something like this:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84432/psalm_example.png
> 
> So far I have this:
> https://gist.github.com/gmoothart/6929479
> 
> which renders like so:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84432/ps149.pdf
> 
> Any comments/suggestions are helpful, but I think my biggest questions
> are:
> 1) How to create the "bar" in the music (I've inserted rests just to show
> where they go) ?
> 2) How to add parentheses around the "optional" notes, as in the example
> 3) How to add markings directly below the music (the ticks and slashes in
> the example)
> 4) how to add an "umlaut" over a letter as in the example.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help. So far I'm very impressed with lilypond!
> Gabe
> 
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