Re: Lyrics and Chord Names with no notes

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello Richard,

you need to enter the lyrics in \lyricmode with explicit durations:
\lyricmode { Hal4. -- le8 -- lu -- ja }
Thus they are independent of any staff context.
Documented in 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#manual-syllable-durations>.

Yours,
Simon

Am 01.10.2014 um 13:39 schrieb Richard Shann:
> I can't seem to find a snippet for typesetting lyrics with chord symbols
> above with no staff visible between them. (The invisible staff would
> give the spacing, that is rhythm).
> Below is the nearest I have got - the only problem is that the
> transparent staff takes up space (even if you reduce the number of staff
> lines).
> Is there a known method of getting lyrics with chord symbols?
>
> Richard
>
> \version "2.18.0"
>
> % The music follows
>
> MvmntIVoiceI = {
>           f'4 <f' aes' ees''> <f' bes' ees'' g''>2
>           <g' fis'' e'''>
> }
>
> MvmntIVoiceII = {
>           c'4 d' e' e'
>           f'
> }
>
> MvmntIVoiceIILyricsVerseI = \lyricmode {
> the words of this song
> }
>
> MvmntIVoiceIIVerseIContext = \context Lyrics = MvmntIVoiceIIVerseI \lyricsto 
> VoiceIIMvmntI \MvmntIVoiceIILyricsVerseI
>
> \layout{
>      \context {
>        \Staff
>        \remove Staff_symbol_engraver
>      }
>    }
>
> \score { %Start of Movement
>   <<
>   \new ChordNames
>      \MvmntIVoiceI
> %Start of Staff
> \new Staff = "Unnamed"  <<
>   \new Voice = "VoiceIIMvmntI"  {
>           \once \override Staff.TimeSignature.transparent = ##t
>           \once \override Staff.Clef.transparent = ##t
>           \hideNotes
>           \MvmntIVoiceII
>                }
> %End of Staff
>          \new Lyrics = MvmntIVoiceIIVerseI
>          \MvmntIVoiceIIVerseIContext
> }
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