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Re: markup in lyrics?
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Graeme St.Clair |
Subject: |
Re: markup in lyrics? |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:49:59 -0500 |
If you can get The Winter Song set, my male voice choir could sure use it if
you were willing to pass it around! Our copies are falling apart...
Rgds, GStC.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robinson P. Tryon 03" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 4:32 PM
Subject: markup in lyrics?
> I'm trying to typeset more of the songs from my college songbook and I'm
running
> across some problems. One problem is that sometimes there are different
words
> sung for different verses...
>
> One line runs:
>
> ... zum, zum, zum. {But / For /And} here by the fire ...
>
> Where the But, For and And should be stacked up like this (use a monospace
font
> to view this):
>
> { But }
> zum, zum. { For } here by the fire
> { And }
>
> *( the multiple curly braces should be single curly braces...)
>
> I tried to put markup in lyrics, as I had hoped I could just make a
column,
> etc.. but all my attempts at 'escaping' the TeX seemed to fail...
>
> ----------
>
> Another problem I was having was arbitrary spacing of notes and lyrics.
(e.g.
> putting words to tied-together noteheads) I've been using the standard
text
> interface to lilypond, but perhaps using a GUI such as Rosegarden might
make it
> easier for me to do more exotic things?
>
>
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- markup in lyrics?, Robinson P. Tryon 03, 2004/12/05
- Re: markup in lyrics?,
Graeme St.Clair <=