Re: Complicated duration

[Alexander Kobel]

On 06/06/2011 05:14 PM, Christopher Culver wrote:
> I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the
> melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable lasts for
> a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the following
> tuplet:
>
> \times 2/3 { a8[ aes8 ges8] }
>
> What is the Lilypond expression of the entire duration that I must write after
> the lyric?

Hi, Christopher,

sounds like 1/1 + 1/8 + 1/8*2/3 = 24/24 + 3/24 + 2/24 = 29/24, if I 
calculated correctly. So probably
        syllable1*29/24
should do the job.


HTH,
Alexander