Good morning Bill, Thanks for your advice. Yours was the first and, as far as I can understand, only answer to my question and it gave me exactly what I needed. Unfortunately the rest of what is discussed in this thread escapes me, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it has little to do with “Vertically centering a song test.”
Best regards, Robert Blackstone > On 3 Dec 2015, at 03:02 , William Marchant <wmarch...@eastlink.ca> wrote: > > In the example snippet quoted below, there is a line: > skipFour = \repeat unfold 4 { \skip 8 } > > I have found this useful on its own, and have saved it for future use. The { > \skip 8 } part has me baffled. What does it do? I have changed the number > to 4, or 16 but there is no perceptible difference in its operation. Yet, if > I remove it, the snippet does not work. Can someone explain its function? > Bill > > On 15-12-02 07:02 AM, Robin Bannister wrote: >> Robert Blackstone wrote: >> >>> How can I shift the lyrics of the second part vertically >> > so that it is centered with respect to the first part >> >> LSR503 shows one way of doing this: >> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=503 >> >> I use Y-offset instead of extra-offset >> >> >> Cheers, >> Robin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user