Re: Aligning lyrics to an invisible Voice

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 27 February 2006 11.17, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> The question has been raised before and I include a Cc: to lilypond-devel
> as a feature request for something like \lyricsto where the actual music
> voice isn't printed but just used as a template for the lyrics rhythm.
> This is certainly useful for example for accompanying instruments, where
> it would take too much place to include the music of the solo in a separate
> part, but where you can fit in at least the lyrics.
>
> Waiting for such a solution, I can see three possibilities:
>
> - Typeset the lyricsRhythm voice in one of the existing staves, but use
>   invisible notes. You migh get into trouble with note heads that are moved
>   to avoid collisions with the invisible notes.
> - Explicitly specify the rhythm directly in the lyrics.
> - See http://lilypond-design.com/sponsor/index.html

It might be possible to achieve alignment by using quoting tricks (use 
\lyricsto in the \addquote to align lyrics, but only quote the lyrics). I 
don't remember all details of how everything currently works, but if it 
doesn't work now, I think it is quite easy to fix it.

-- 
Erik