Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Christopher Culver
I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable lasts for a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the following tuplet: \times 2/3 { a8[ aes8 ges8] } What is the Lilypond expression of the entir

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Alexander Kobel
On 06/06/2011 05:14 PM, Christopher Culver wrote: I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable lasts for a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the following tuplet: \times 2/3 { a8[ aes8 g

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Francisco Vila
2011/6/6 Christopher Culver : > I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the > melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable lasts for > a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the following > tuplet: > > \times 2/3 { a8[ aes8 ges8] } > >

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Brent Annable
Do you need to specify the duration? If the notes are all tied together, won't the lyrics engraver align the syllable automatically? Brent. On 6 June 2011 17:14, Christopher Culver wrote: > I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the > melody. While this is generally

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Éditions IN NOMINE
Hi ! You can put the length of the melism after the word : 1 + 2/3 = 5/3 so : bla8*5/3 (haven't tried !) Another issue would be to use, INSIDE THE NOTES, \melisma and \mlelismaEnd (cf http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music.html#multiple-notes-to-o

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Trevor Daniels
Christopher Culver wrote Monday, June 06, 2011 4:14 PM I am typesetting a peace of music and trying to align the lyrics to the melody. While this is generally simple, one climactic syllable lasts for a whole note plus an eighth note plus the first note of the following tuplet: \times 2/3 {

Re: Complicated duration

2011-06-06 Thread Christopher Culver
The responses here were very useful and presented more than one way to fix the problem. Thanks to all. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user