On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Jürgen Ibelgaufts wrote: > > Hello, thanks for jumping in. > > Devnull was new to me. I tried, and the notes are invisible, leaving no gap. > Very fine so far. But every single syllable leads to a warning "lyric > syllable does not have note" and the lyrics still are out of sync. Some > syllables even get completely lost. Either ties are ignored or maybe every > syllable is simply regarded as a quarter note which is quite useless. > > In section "Lyrics independent of notes" the docs say "Connecting lyrics to > a Devnull context makes the voice/lyrics links to get lost". well, that's > what happens. The connection also gets lost when I make the notes invisible > by removing the engravers, especially the note-head engraver. > > So I think I will have to play around with transparency and try to eliminate > the gap that is left by the transparent notes. > > Jürgen
It sounds like you're using the 2.12 documentation. The 2.13 documentation has a much more elegant solution, which should work, albeit, you'll likely have to re-format how your lyrics are entered. See the sectio on manual syllable durations. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user