On Tuesday 11 October 2005 01.39, Ian Hawthorn wrote: > Suggested feature: Commands (e.g.) `\LOn' and `\LOff' to turn on and off > the synchronisation of lyrics and avoid overuse of `_'. For example > > { \LOff b4 a g a | \LOn b b b r | \LOff a a a r | b d d r } > addlyrics { lit -- tle lamb } > > To give the same result as > > { b4 a g a | b b b r | a a a r | b d d r } > addlyrics{ _ _ _ _ | li -- tle lamb | _ _ _ | _ _ _ } > > Sometimes I feel like I am drowning in _ _ _ _ | _ _ _ _ | _ _ _ _ and > it is so easy to lose count or forget to take account of a tie and end > up with the words out of synch.
You can use two different voices for the notes, and then use \lyricsto to assign lyrics only to one of the voices: << \new Staff << \context Voice="song" {s1 | b4 b b r | s1 | s1 | } \context Voice="instr" {b4 a g a | s1 | a4 a a r | b d d r } >> \lyricsto "song" { li -- tle lamb } >> Notice that the "song" voice here is kept alive with skip notes all the time. In principle, I think it also should be possible to do it like this: { \context Voice="instr" {b4 a g a} | \context Voice="song" {b b b r} | \context Voice="instr" {a a a r | b d d r} } However, I think there are bugs that prevent this, so I don't recommend it. -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user