Hi list ! I've been working hard ;o) on my ossia trick, and I've found how to reproduce a french cantata excerpt. Using lily 2.8.3 on XP. What I have to engrave : The piece of music is a french recitative, introduced buy the viol on a single line (10 measures). Then, we have the recitative itself (viol + voice) Then the viol alone again Then the voice and the viol. The last 9 measures are played only buy the viol. I have a viol, a voice, and lyrics. When the viol plays alone, the voice line on the fac simile disappear. How i managed this : I have used the 8.3.2 hiding staves trick, which is described for instruments without lyrics. Here's the structure of my ly file : \version "2.8.3" \layout { indent = 0.0\cm -----> let me explain this below... \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } } << \new Staff = soprano { \override Score.VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t \clef G \time 2/2 \relative c'' { R4 -------> R and not r !!! R1*10 -------> doesn't appear on the final score (that's what i want !) r2 r4 g c c8 d e4 e8 c (...) }} \addlyrics { (...)} \\new Staff = bass { \time 2/2 \clef alto \relative c' { \partial 4*1 g4 c c8 d e4 c (...) }} >> << the same thing for the second part >> Some comments : - I'd like to have the whole score between << >> but I had to split the score into two parts to get it work. That's why I have put indent = 0.0\cm (otherwise, I had an ident for the second part) Is there a way to do so ? - the order of the staves is important to get the lyrics below the soprano and not below the bass (THIS is the main point I've working on !) I hope this will help somebody ! Best regards Jmarc _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user