Re: Adding Lyrics to a rest in \lyricmode

2010-02-21 Thread keith Luke
Thanks for the examples. These suggestions work great!!! I can now place lyrics that are independent of notes. Now I would like to know how to include accidentals in the lyrics. The lyrics have the note name so I want to be able to add lyrics such as F# or Bb using the sharp and flat font

Re: Adding Lyrics to a rest in \lyricmode

2010-02-21 Thread James Bailey
lyrics can contain markup. And markup can contain accidentals. On 21.02.2010, at 20:15, keith Luke wrote: Thanks for the examples. These suggestions work great!!! I can now place lyrics that are independent of notes. Now I would like to know how to include accidentals in the lyrics.

Re: Adding Lyrics to a rest in \lyricmode

2010-02-16 Thread keith Luke
I tried modifying this example from the manual: voice = { c''2 \tag #'music { c''2 } \tag #'lyricrhythm { c''4. c''8 } d''1 } lyr = \lyricmode { I like my cat! } \new Staff \keepWithTag #'music \voice \new Devnull=nowhere \keepWithTag #'lyricrhythm \voice \new Lyrics \lyricsto nowhere \lyr \new

Re: Adding Lyrics to a rest in \lyricmode

2010-02-16 Thread James Bailey
Okay, here's two possibilities. One uses devnull and the other uses manual lyric placement. As far as I can tell, they both achieve the same result. \version 2.12.2 voice = { r4 r r r } lyricrhythm = \tag #'lyricrhythm { c''4 c c c } lyr = \lyricmode { I like my cat! } \new Staff

Adding Lyrics to a rest in \lyricmode

2010-02-15 Thread keith Luke
I'm helping a friend with an instructional booklet for his ukulele music. I'm using \lyricmode to add note names to the notes in the melody and would like to add the word rest on the lyric line when there is a rest in the melody. However, \lyricmode ignores the rest event. I code the following

Re: Adding Lyrics to a rest in \lyricmode

2010-02-15 Thread James Bailey
On 15.02.2010, at 19:50, keith Luke wrote: I'm helping a friend with an instructional booklet for his ukulele music. I'm using \lyricmode to add note names to the notes in the melody and would like to add the word rest on the lyric line when there is a rest in the melody. However,