On 27/01/2012, at 6:27 am, Matie Holtzhausen wrote: >> \set Staff.vocalName >> \set Staff.shortVocalName >> >> similar to instrumentName > > Thanks, but I was hoping to use multiple verses in the same staff:
shortVocalName does allow multiple verses: in the lyrics, wherever you say '\set stanza' also say '\set shortVocalName'. You may not like the position of the numbers though (outside the left of the staff). Cut down from a real example:
FlowGentlySweetAftonBallad.pdf
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\version "2.14.1" #( ly:set-option 'backend 'eps) \include "english.ly" \layout { indent = 0.0\cm \context { \Lyrics \override InstrumentName #'font-size = #0 \override InstrumentName #'font-series = #'bold } } \header { tagline = ##f } verseOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1." \set shortVocalName = "1." Flow gent -- ly, sweet Af -- ton, a -- mong thy green braes, Flow gent -- ly, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; } verseTwo = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "2." \set shortVocalName = "2." How loft -- y, sweet Af -- ton! thy neigh -- bour -- ing hills, Far mark'd with the cour -- ses of clear, wind -- ing rills; } verseThree = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "3." \set shortVocalName = "3." Thy crys -- tal stream, Af -- ton, how love -- ly it glides, And winds by the cot where my Ma -- ry re -- sides; } \score { << \new Staff << \clef treble \key a \major \time 3/4 \new Voice = "soprano" \relative { \partial 4 e4 a a cs8( b) a4 a e fs a fs e2 e4 a a b cs cs d e cs a b2 } >> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "soprano" { \verseOne } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "soprano" { \verseTwo } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "soprano" { \verseThree } >> } Best wishes, Matthew
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