Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes: > 2015-08-02 23:00 GMT+02:00 Alberto Simões <al...@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>: >> Hello >> >> I know it is not a common practice, but I would like to put in the middle of >> the lyrics text, a quarter rest (in parenthesis), in order to make it clear >> that nothing should be sang in that note (and also because I am trying to >> copy what was written by the composer). > > Try: > > { c''4 d'' e'' f'' } > \addlyrics { > c d \markup { \raise #0.8 \parenthesize \fontsize #-6 \rest #"4" } f > }
Alternatively: << \new Voice = "melody" { c''4 d'' e'' f'' } \new Lyrics \with { \consists "Rest_engraver" \override Rest.Y-offset = 0.5 } \lyricsto "melody" { c d \notemode { \parenthesize r4 } f } >> -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user