Hello
I am exploring lilypond for the first time. In evaluating its
suitability for my
purposes, I am making a little test piece to explore layouts.
I am having trouble with lyric setting. I would like to use a
pre-defined
variable with the \addlyrics command (I can't find the answer in the
manual
or archives).
Thus something along the lines of
sopLyric = { One Two Three }
{ a b c }
\addlyrics \sopLyric
However, this approach fails. The actual error I get from my actual
test piece is
test2.ly:44:13: error: syntax error, unexpected STRING
sopLyric = {
One Two Three }
OK, so I guess I have something wrong with the variable assignment syntax
(sopLyric = ...) and it is not allowed to put a string like this. I
have tried other things;
with quotes, and trying to put the addlyrics in the variable but I
can't get this
approach to work.
As far as I can see, the manual does not have an example of this.
Whenever it
uses \addlyrics, the examples give the lyrics directly where the
\addlyrics command is
used. I can't find anything about using strings in the explanation of
assigning
variables either.
The manual does show how to use a pre-defined variable with the more
complex
lyric modes. So I tried this too. Below is the actual code (rather
than some
pseudo code like above) that I used. You can see I am trying to use
lyricmode
and lyricsto on the Soprano voice (the only one for now). The music is
enclosed between << and >> because of course I really want to have
several voices (sop,mez,alto) but in finding the simplest version of what
I am doing that fails, I have pulled the other voices out.
The error I get is
warning: cannot find Voice `sop'
(although I have defined it), and the resultant type-set file has two
staffs; one empty, the second with
the actual soprano voice notes and no lyric.
As far as I can see I have followed the examples in the manual.
I note that if I remove the << and >> this error message does not occur,
but the same wrong output arises.
Perhaps I should be using some of the other commands like \score etc but
I don't really know what they are for at this point (they just start
appearing
in the manual without explanation).
advice appreciated !
regards
Neil
\include "english.ly"
\version "2.6.3"
\midi{ \tempo 4=72 }
\header {
title = \markup { "Test Piece" }
composer = \markup { "Mr. Wiggle" }
poet = \markup { "Mr. Biggles" }
}
common = {
\key g \major
\time 3/4
}
%
sopNotes = {
\relative c' {
\set Staff.instrument = \markup {Soprano}
\tempo 4=80
\common
\clef treble
e'2 d4 c2 <b d>4 a8( b) c2
}
}
%
%
sopLyric = \lyricmode {
One Two One Two One __ Two
}
%
<<
\context Voice = sop {
\new Staff {
\sopNotes
}
}
\lyricsto "sop" \new Lyrics \sopLyric
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