Re: stanza numbers and incipits

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:


    Jan> Ok, I see what you mean:

    Jan>    1.                                       Foo ..
    Jan>                                             foo ..
    Jan>    2.                                       Bar ..


    Jan> The best I can come up with is, see below.  But this would actually
    Jan> need some hacking to get right.


    Jan> wordsdefaultVA = \lyrics  {
    Jan> \incipitwords
    Jan> \property LyricsVoice . StanzaNumber \override #'visibility-lambda = 
#all-visible
    Jan> \property LyricsVoice . stz = "1."
    Jan> Thinkst
    Jan> \property LyricsVoice . StanzaNumber \revert #'visibility-lambda
    Jan> \property LyricsVoice . stz = ""
    Jan> thou then by thy fayn- ing sleepe  
    Jan> with a proud  _  dis-  _  day-    ning,  To drive me from thy sight,   
    Jan> when sleepe yeelds more de-  light,   such harm-  less beau-  tie gra- 
 cing.  
    Jan> }

Thanks, that seems to work pretty well.  It looks odd to me that the
stanza number is under the clef rather than next to the first word in
the stanza, but that does seem to be where Lily puts stanza numbers.

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