Re: Breath Marks in Lyrics?

[David Wright]

On Thu 02 Jan 2025 at 09:08:08 (+0100), Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 at 07:10, Walt North <waltno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   I use lilypond to enter music notes, chords, and lyrics and use those
> > to create different handouts for different musicians. For those that
> > receive melody lines I can insert breath marks.
> >
> > The rhythm guitarist just wants lyrics and chords.  Is there any tidy
> > way to insert breath marks in lyric lines? That don't look like
> > apostrophes and don't take up time?
> 
> You could add the Breathing_sign_engraver in the Lyrics context and use the
> \breathe command in lyrics.
> 
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Lyrics
>     \consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
>     \override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #2  % looks better
>   }
> }
> 
> <<
>   \new Voice = "melody" \relative {
>     a'1 a4. a8 \breathe a2
>   }
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
>     These are the \breathe words
>   }
> >>

Attached is some doodling based on the above as there was no MWE.
You might want to decrease the X extent of the tickmark stencil,
and force an appropriate Y spacing of the elements. (I haven't
looked into the staff-affinities warning.)

Cheers,
David.

\score {
  <<
    \new Voice = "melody" \relative {
      a'1 a4. a8 a2
    }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
      These are the words
    }
  >>
}

\score {
  <<
    \new Voice = "melody" \relative {
      a'1 a4. a8 a2
    }
    \new ChordNames \chordmode {
      c1 c2 c2
    }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
      These are the \breathe words
    }
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Lyrics
      \consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
      \override BreathingSign.text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.tickmark")
      \override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #1
    }
  }
}

\score {
  <<
    \new Voice = "melody" \relative {
      a'1 a4. a8 a2
    }
    \new ChordNames \chordmode {
      c1 c2 c2
    }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
      These are the \breathe words
    }
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Lyrics
      \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
      \consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
      \override BreathingSign.text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.tickmark")
      \override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #2
    }
  }
}

\score {
  <<
    \new ChordNames \chordmode {
      c1 c2 c2
    }
    \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
      These1 are4. the8 \breathe words2
    }
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Lyrics
      \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
      \consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
      \override BreathingSign.text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.tickmark")
      \override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #1
    }
  }
}

\score {
  <<
    \new ChordNames \chordmode {
      c1 c2 c2
    }
    \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
      These1 are4. the8 \breathe words2
    }
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Lyrics
      \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
      \consists "Breathing_sign_engraver"
      \override BreathingSign.text = #(make-musicglyph-markup "scripts.tickmark")
      \override BreathingSign.Y-offset = #2
    }
  }
}

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