Re: text spread again

[Trevor Daniels]

Hi Milan

Please keep discussions on the list so that others can chip in with their ideas.

As the Section in the Notation Reference says, there is no facility in LilyPond
to do this automatically, but it can be done manually with a bit of fiddling.

Your example is rather different to the one in the NR, in that the words need
to be well spaced out.  Here's my solution:

<<
  \new Staff {
    \new Voice {
      \relative c'' {
        \repeat unfold 24 a4
      }
    }
  }
  \new Lyrics {
    \lyricmode {
      ""2 Thank8*12 you8*10 very8*11 much8*11
    }
  }
>>

HTH, Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "aum" <address@hidden>
To: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:51 PM
Subject: text spread again


> Hi Trevor,
> I tried to apply your advice but I am still not able to spread the words 
> smoothly. Could you please make a snippet of code?
> For example, let us make six bars of quarter notes and put the sentence 
> "Thank you very much!" over (or better under) stave to cover evenly the 
> range from 3rd to 21th note.
> Thank you very much!
> Milan
> 
> On 03/27/2013 09:04 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>> aum wrote Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:48 AM
>>
>>> I have music with a spoken words. Is it possible to spread lyrics over 
>>> multiple
>>> bars without note-syllable correspondence?
>> Yes, but it rather messy to do if the bars extend over more than one system.
>> This section in the Notation Reference shows one approach:
>>
>> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/opera-and-stage-musicals#dialogue-over-music
>>
>> Trevor
>>   
>