Re: Cue notes with lyrics?

[Rutger Hofman]

On 02/14/2015 02:48 PM, Thomas Morley wrote:
> 2015-02-14 13:27 GMT+01:00 Rutger Hofman <address@hidden>:
> > Good morning list,
> >
> > I would like to create cue notes with lyrics. I added lyric-event to the
> > Score.quotedCueEventTypes but that gave me no lyrics. How should I go about
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rutger Hofman
> > Amsterdam
>
> Hi,
>
> best I can currently think of is the code below.
> Though, there is a _big_ drawback with it: You have to specify the
> durations of the lyrics. Using \lyricsto will not work, as far as I
> can tell.
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> cueLyr =
> #(define-music-function
>     (parser location what main-music) (string? ly:music?)
>     (_i "Insert contents of quote @var{what} corresponding to @var{main-music},
> in Lyrics oriented by @var{dir}.")
>     (make-music 'QuoteMusic
>             'element main-music
>             'quoted-context-type 'CueLyrics
>             'quoted-context-id "cue-lyr"
>             'quoted-music-name what
>             ))
>
> \layout {
>    \context {
>      \Score
>      \accepts "CueLyrics"
>      quotedCueEventTypes =
>        #'(note-event rest-event tie-event
>           beam-event tuplet-span-event
>           dynamic-event slur-event lyric-event)
>    }
>    %% maybe other contexts have to accept "CueLyrics" as well!
>    \context {
>      \ChoirStaff
>      \accepts "CueLyrics"
>    }
>    \context{
>     \Lyrics
>     \name CueLyrics
>     \alias Lyrics
>     fontSize = #-4
>    }
> }
>
> oboeNotes = \relative c'' {
>    c2 r8 d16\f f e g f a
>    g8 g16 g g2.
> }
> \addQuote "oboe" { \oboeNotes }
>
> lyr = \lyricmode {
>    xy2 \skip8
>    a16 b c d e f g8 a16 h i
>
> }
> \addQuote "lyr" { \lyr }
>
>
> <<
>    \new Staff \oboeNotes
>    \new Lyrics \lyr
>
>    \new Staff
>      \new Voice
>        \relative c'' {
>          c2
>          <<
>          \cueDuring #"oboe" #UP { r2 }
>          \cueLyr #"lyr" { r2 }
>          >>
>          g2 c,
>        }
> > >

Thanks Harm!

I will (also) study your code, there is a lot that will be instructive 
in any context.

Rutger