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Re: How to enter small fragments of alternative lyrics for a voice?
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Erik Sandberg |
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Re: How to enter small fragments of alternative lyrics for a voice? |
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Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:31:41 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23.18, Michael Kallas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to enter a collection of SATB pieces in which I've
> encountered a problem: At certain positions, I have 2 voices going
> tra- la- la- la- la- la- la,
> but the other two go:
> tra- la- la- la- la- la- (rest) tra- la- la
> For the rest of the piece, the lyrics are identical, so I don't want to
> draw two lines of identical lyrics.
> Is it possible to have "blanks" in lyrics which become matched to notes?
> I didn't find any way to do this in the manual but must admit that I'm
> really new to lilypond.
> I'm using version 2.2.6 on Debian unstable, if that matters.
Have you tried using \skip within lyrics? like { la la la \skip 4 tra la la }
erik