Re: Lyrics in different colours

[Jeffery Shivers]

Oops - I did not send that to the listserv. This does that.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Jeffery Shivers <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Don,

If you're working

​in

 lyric

​mode​

 and not markups​

,

​​

you can

​​

​:​

emphasize = {
  \override Lyrics.LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
  \override Lyrics.LyricText.font-series = #'bold
}

\emphasize at the beginning of the text of your middle verse. You can change what 'emphasize' does - that's just the usage example from the documentation:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/using-variables-for-layout-adjustments

​//​

​If you're using markups:

\bold { will make all this text bold } but not this, so just make sure you encapsulate the whole body.

Which is explained better here.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/formatting-text

​Hope that helps!​

​-j​

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Don Gingrich <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I've got a score with a treble and bass part and three
verses worth of lyrics in between. Is there some simple
way to make the middle set of lyrics a different colour
or bold or underlined -- anything to make it easier to keep
track of which verse? It's made more complicated since
we're a choir singing in Scottish Gaelic (and we're mostly
*not* fluent Gaelic speakers. i.e. learning lyrics more or
less phonetically.)

I can send the .ly file, but it would be really difficult to
extract a useful example, given my level of LilyPond
knowledge.

Thanks,
-Don (Victorian Scottish Gaelic Society Choir)
--
Don Gingrich

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