Re: \skip in \lyricmode

[Erik Sandberg]

On Saturday 11 December 2004 04.07, Alexandre B wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using lily 2.4.2.. and I'm having troubles with lyrics that have long
> silences, while other lyric parts continue.
>
> First, \skip does nothing of it's first argument, which at my sense is a
> bug, since it *must* be specified.. but means nothing.

I do not consider it a bug, since a bug is a difference between documented and 
actual behaviour. However it is a highly relevant feature request, actually 
we have had a similar discussion some week ago on the lilypond-devel 
mailinglist (search for lyricSkip in the archives).

> I'd suggest a:
>
> \skipNotes num
>
> syntax, and you could count the number of notes you want to skip.. at least
> it would save you from typing:
>
> \skip 1
>
> 30 times just to skip a couple of measures.

You can always do

\repeat "unfold" 30 \skip 1

Erik