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Re: Multiple stanza lines under second section of music
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Richard Shann |
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Re: Multiple stanza lines under second section of music |
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Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:53:13 +0100 |
On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 19:30 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Henry Law <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > 3. On 28/03/16 13:05, Christoph Friedrich wrote:
> >> refrain-empty = \lyricmode {
> >> " " " " " " " " " " " "
> >> }
> >
> > (Blush) no it isn't. I'd used underscores, which seemed to work.
> > Yes, I know not to do that now.
>
> Why? I think that's what the underscores are actually for.
There is a comment in the docs saying that underscores are for melisma
and that \skip is good otherwise. This came up recently in the denemo
list, I put in a command to take a selection of notes and create a \skip
for the appropriate number of syllables, as the only thing I could
suggest otherwise was melisma.
This thread illustrates how much more flexible direct access to LilyPond
is than using a graphical front end: the syntax with two \new Voices in
serial, one for the verse and one for the chorus wouldn't fit the rigid
Denemo framework. (OTOH having a GUI does mean you can just drag over
the notes and hit skip, rather than counting up the syllables).
Richard