Re: Lyrics and Chord Names with no notes

[Richard Shann]

ah, yes, thank you, I had forgotten about lyricmode as I don't generate
that syntax from Denemo. That is the clean way to handle this.
Richard

On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 13:53 +0200, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> 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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