Re: "\skip 1 * x" doesn't work correct in Lyrics mode (version 2.4.5)

[Erik Sandberg]

Citerar Tjeerd Pinkert <address@hidden>:

> Hello people,
> 
> I wanted to skip the lyrics somewhat more than one or two notes in one of
> the songs I was doing, and than this would just not go (only one forth note
> is
> skipped from 12 whole). The music is attached for you to look upon this
> weird thing. The words "Hij leeft!" in the bottom line should show up at
> the points where %%NOTE is entered in the .ly file (or somewhere near
> because i inserted 12 bars skip) that is in the part behind the || bar.
> But in my case it starts already in the first bar. Also note that the
> second skip in between the words is not skipping enough.
> 
> For me the solution was just to break up the bassdownRefrein in two parts
> and add a lyrics to each part. (the .diff to the new file is added as
> well, this might be considdered a tweak, but i would say it's just an
> ugly solution)
> 
> I think the behaviour of \skip in a Lyrics context should just behave
> properly as the manual says it does, so entering "\skip 1 * 12" should
> skip 12 whole bars.
> 
> I will hear if this is addressed already (in that case i'm sorry to have
> bothered you) or if i just made some stupid mistake in the lilypond
> source (or maybe it is a difficult thing to address)

Search the mail archives for this, it has been discussed earlier. It has to do
with \lyricsto. 

If you need to skip many syllables, you can use \repeat unfold \skip 1, or
alternatively upgrade to 2.7, where _ is a shortcut for \skip.

Erik