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From: | Colin Campbell |
Subject: | Re: Add lyrics after n measures |
Date: | Sun, 07 Sep 2014 14:52:26 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 |
On 14-08-29 02:21 PM, Simon Albrecht
wrote:
I'm setting a piece of barbershop music, in which each of the four voices has different pitches. Often, the outer voices will be singing vocalises, while the inner ones have the melody and a harmony line. As often, all four voices share the same lyrics and rhythm, again with different pitches. Visually, there are passages with centered lyrics between two staves, and vocalises above the top staff and below the bottom staff, coming and going. To avoid writing four complete sets of lyrics, I use \skipsy \skips in the lyrics of the outer voices. I wrote this little function to avoid many, many \skips: %<------------------------------------- lSkip = #(define-music-function (parser location skips) (number?) #{ \repeat unfold #skips { \skip 1 } #})
It requires counting the number of notes to be skipped, but lets me enter : tWords = \lyricmode { \skip 1 doo doo doo doo wee -- oo \lSkip #3 doo __ doo \lSkip #7 doo __ doo \lSkip #7 doo doo doo doo wee -- oo doo __ }The drawback, and my question to the assembled wisdom, is that the vocalises require lyric extenders, but the \skip seems to extend the lines over the skipped notes. Is there a way to make sure the extenders end before the first skipped note? Cheers, Colin -- I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. -Maya Angelou, poet (1928- ) |
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