Re: Add lyrics after n measures

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 08.09.2014 um 18:10 schrieb Colin Campbell:

On 14-09-08 01:36 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:

(in reference to lyric \skips not terminating an extender)

Try a single space in quotes: " "

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Phil Holmes

 

Thanks, Phil. I  found that in my testing later yesterday. It will at least get the project done, although in a way which feels a bit kludgy. I'll try to work out how to do arithmetic inside a scheme function

which is rather simple: You use the scheme prefix syntax, - as a function and thus obtain #(- n 1).

(pass in a number of notes to skip, decrement by one and insert the quoted space), or I suppose I can do the work in my head.

The full function would then be:
%<-------------------------------------

lSkip =

#(define-music-function

(parser location skips)

(number?)

#{

\lyricmode {

" "

\repeat unfold $(- skips 1) { \skip 1 }

}

#})

%<-------------------------

For me, this doesn’t work though: the extender line is not finished by " " – no idea, why. For you it worked?
I attach my test file for checking.

HTH, Simon

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