Re: Combining verses into one chorus

[Mats Bengtsson]

When it comes to typesetting practice, I think it is just as common to to
typeset this kind of situation without a brace (in particular if you add a
line break before the chorus). However, if you really want a brace,
you could do something along the lines of the trick described in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00312.html

(I have just added the same example to the LSR).

  /Mats

Jebus wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I'm *very* new to lilypond, and I have no musical background. (Just 
> thought I'd get that out of the way). My wife does though, and some of 
> her loose sheet music is getting ratty, so I thought I'd transcribe 
> some of it into a file for lilypond so I could print it out and it 
> would nice and clean.
>
> I've come across many problems while doing this, but I've been able to 
> find answers to all my questions (by either reading the lilypond 
> website or searching for clues using google) save one. I just can't 
> for the life of me figure out how to combine two sets of verses into 
> one centered chorus. I know this may sound strange and/or anal, but a 
> picture is worth a thousand words, so with the following code:
> \relative c' {
>         \new Staff <<
>                 \key es \major
>                 \time 4/4
>                 {
>                         c c c c
> 			r d d d 
> 			f2 f
>                 }
>                 \addlyrics {
>                         \set stanza = "1. "
>                         This is verse one.
>                         This is the chor -- us.
>                 }
>                 \addlyrics {
>                         \set stanza = "2. "
>                         This is verse two.
>                 }
>         >>
> }
>   
> I produce this output:
> Combining verses into one chorus
>
> What I'm looking to achieve is this:
> Combining verses into one chorus
> I just used some image editing software to produce the above image.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on how I can achieve the desired results?
>
> Thank you very much for your time.
> J.
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