Re: lyric on a rest | parenthesis

[David Wright]

On Thu 14 Apr 2016 at 11:20:08 (+0100), Phil Holmes wrote:
> From: "mj" <address@hidden>
> >Is it possible to lyric text on a rest? (it auto-skips, now)
> >
> >I'm using \addlyrics { \words }, and there is a quarter rest that
> >needs a word, just like all the other notes. Is that possible?
> 
> See 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#manual-syllable-durations

... which can take a lot of work, worth it sometimes but not always.

IF you don't mind the spurious note in the midi (unless you
work around it), you could just change the notehead. Hacking
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=475
you can:

headCroch = { \once \omit Stem
  \once \override NoteHead.stencil = #ly:text-interface::print
  \once \override NoteHead.text = #(markup #:musicglyph "rests.2") }

as attached.

Cheers,
David.

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