On 4/13/2011 5:12 PM, Phil Holmes wrote:
Please reply-all when answering a question on the user-list - that way everyone can see your answers and contribute.

Also - if you're lucky enough to have a mail program that always properly quotes with a > mark, please add contributions at the bottom. Mine doesn't, so I'm doing it wrong.

If you look at the development documentation here:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#ossia-staves

You'll see further down that there is some use of \set alignBelowContext with lyrics. This may give you what you want, even with 2.12.3

Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bobroff" <bobr...@centrum.is>
To: "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: ossia and lyrics


Oops!  v2.12.3

On 4/13/2011 4:41 PM, Phil Holmes wrote:
Could you let us know what version of LilyPond you're using? - aspects of this have changed recently

Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bobroff" <bobr...@centrum.is>
To: "lilypond-user" <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 5:28 PM
Subject: ossia and lyrics


I've been tasked with altering a score I've prepared.  The score
currently consists of a piano part with a vocal line and a contrabass
obligato line.  As it stands, all is well.  Now I need to put in ossia
passages for the voice.  I have managed to create ossia passages by
using examples in the manual but I'm running into a problem with getting
the lyrics to appear.  I want the ossia musical passages to appear above
the original but I don't want lyrics under the ossia passage, only under
the original.  I currently have the separate elements of the vocal
material defined like this:

% Lyrics
soprano = \lyricmode { "soprano lyrics" }

% music
sop =  \relative c'' { the soprano's music }

% assembled lyrics and music
vocal = {
<<
    \new Voice = sop \relative {
<<
    \clef G
    \global
    \sop
>>
    }
    \addlyrics { \soprano }
>>
}

I'd like to define my ossia sections and put them together with the
definitions I already have without doing too much violence to the work
I've already done.  I was experimenting with the ossias (ossiƦ?) from
section 1.6.2 of the Notation Manual but ran into trouble with the
lyrics not showing up and getting an error about; cannot find Voice
'uniqueContext0' or something to that effect.  I suspect there is some
detail involving nesting, contexts or something which is proving beyond
my ability to locate and/or decipher in the docs.

Help?

-David

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I'm almost there:

%%%%% BEGIN LILYPOND %%%%%

\version "2.12.3"

sopranoMusic = \relative c' { c4 d e f g a b c b a g f e d c }

sopranoLyrics = \lyricmode { do re mi fa sol la ti do }

ossia = \relative c''' { \stopStaff s1 \startStaff g4 a b c \stopStaff }

soprano = \context Staff <<
  \context Voice = "1" { \sopranoMusic }
  {
<<
      \lyrics {
        \set alignBelowContext = #"1"
        \new Lyrics \lyricsto "1" { \sopranoLyrics }
      }
      \new Staff \with {
        alignAboveContext = #"1"
        fontSize = #-2
        \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -2)
        \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
    \override Clef #'transparent = ##t
      } {
    \ossia
      }
>>
  }
>>

\score{
  \soprano
}

%%%%% END LILYPOND %%%%%

This does everything except that the ossia line is below the main staff. Do I need to "stack" them in the opposite order, i.e. list them from top to bottom? I thought the 'alignAboveContext' should have taken care of that. Can I move some of the '\new Staff \with { blah blah blah }' to the ossia definition to neaten up my \score block?

Thanks,

David

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