On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 12:11 -0400, Tim Slattery wrote: > I'm setting a song with two verses. It's a madrigal, so there are > fairly long stretches of "fa la la..." that are identical in the two > verses. I'd like to have them "fa la la" part printed only once. > > So...I've set verse one with all the words, including "fa la la". > That's fine. I'd like to have verse two show only the different words, > and leave a space where the "fa la la" is.
I just did this in Denemo, I selected the notes and chose the Skip Syllables in Selection command it generated \repeat unfold 8 \skip 1 where the 8 was the number of notes (syllables, as there were no slurs etc) in the selection. HTH Richard > > But I can't figure out how to tell Lily to not match word to the > stretch of notes that correspond to the "fa la la" for the second > verse. > > It looks like I could use \skip ... but I'd have to have one for each > note to be skipped. Is there a way to tell Lilypond how many notes or > measures to skip? > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user