Jean-Charles, On 18 March 2012 12:49, Jean-Charles Malahieude <lily...@orange.fr> wrote: > Le 18/03/2012 12:38, James disait : >> >> Hello, >> >> >> On 18 March 2012 11:33, Jean-Charles Malahieude wrote: >>> >>> Le 17/03/2012 11:14, Reedmace Star disait : >>> >>>> In the first line, Alice and Eve alternate strictly in singing, so their >>>> lyrics get collapsed: >>>> >>>> ALICE EVE ALICE EVE >>>> maybe that the second words are >>>> >>>> After the manual line break, Alice cuts off Eve with a bit of overlap. >>>> Their lyrics stay on different lines, which makes sense: >>>> >>>> EVE ALICE >>>> Shut up, you fool! >>>> ...and then I was like- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I wished I had found it myself... >>> >>> Would be worth a "selected snippet" in NR 2.1.2 Techniques specific to >>> lyrics, Placing lyrics vertically? >>> >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-03/msg00508.html >>> >> >> I don't understand this request for a 'snippet', are you saying it >> already exists as a snippet and you want it in the NR or that you want >> a new snippet created *as well*? >> >> If it is the latter, and someone can give me a 'clear' explanation of >> what this snippet shows (so I can write a concise texidoc entry) I can >> arrange that, else if the snippet already exists tell me the name of >> it and I can add it very easily. >> > > Searching the LSR does not return it, and I think it is worth to have it in > the NR. > > I would sort of call it a "partcombine" for lyrics: it often happens that a > soloist shares a staff with a choir part (let's say the diva and the > soprani) when they sing alternatively, or two characters like in Reedmace > Star's example. The fact is that Lily place /two/ lines of lyrics when the > change appears on the same system.
I don't understand how Lyrics work in LilyPond or what your last paragraph means (it is meaningless to me, sorry - I play trumpet, I don't sing, so never need to read or use lyrics in a score) I was hoping that you could give me a texidoc string I could simply copy.paste into the example at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-03/msg00508.html Then I can create a snippet from that. I can't articulate it myself. -- -- James _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond