Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-21 Thread 70147persson
I am working on a piece of choir music. It consists of two parts, the first of which is written on one staff, and the second two staves. The upper staff in part two is a continuation of the staff in part one. All the staves are accompanied with lyrics. My wish is that this lyrics should be writ

Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-21 Thread Phil Holmes
tting lyrics below its staff? I am working on a piece of choir music. It consists of two parts, the first of which is written on one staff, and the second two staves. The upper staff in part two is a continuation of the staff in part one. All the staves are accompanied with lyrics. My wish is

Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-21 Thread tisimst
tes. 3. The second staff's empty measures are removed via two overrides \RemoveEmptyStaves and \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first = ##t 4. Each set of Lyrics is placed immediately after its staff so there is no need to direct it above or below anything I hope that this provide

Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-21 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/21/15 5:23 PM, "Kaj Persson" wrote: >The example shows, that LilyPond perfectly understands the implied >structure and it also understands which lyric belongs to which note. >So that is not the problem. A minor issue is that the lyrics for the >top staff is broken into separ

Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/22/15 10:03 AM, "70147pers...@telia.com" <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > >Hi Carl! > >Yes, you are the person with the big understanding. I learned t from >your solution, that you can, and in this case must, do things inside >open parenthesis. I am concerned that

Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-23 Thread Noeck
Hi Kaj, in general you are right: In case there is only one expression, duplicating the 'brackets', << >> or { } is not needed. You can even write a single note without brackets: \new Staff a but of course not two: \new Staff a b At the top level you need something to tell LilyPond that this is m

Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-28 Thread Kaj
Hi Noeck Sorry for a late answer. I have been away from home and not being able to read my e-mail. On 2015-05-23 20:41, Noeck wrote: Hi Kaj, in general you are right: In case there is only one expression, duplicating the 'brackets', << >> or { } is not needed. You can even write a single not

Re: Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-21 Thread Kaj Persson
laced immediately after its staff so there is no need to direct it above or below anything I hope that this provides a clearer logic to how to construct a score that is quite obvious to what's happening (to the user) and relatively mistake-proof in interpretation (for LilyPond). Regards

Re: Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-22 Thread 70147persson
On 2015-05-22 02:18, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 5/21/15 5:23 PM, "Kaj Persson" wrote: The example shows, that LilyPond perfectly understands the implied structure and it also understands which lyric belongs to which note. So that is not the problem. A minor issue is that the lyrics f

Re: Re: Putting lyrics below its staff?

2015-05-23 Thread 70147persson
On 2015-05-22 22:02, Carl Sorensen wrote: On 5/22/15 10:03 AM, "70147pers...@telia.com" <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: Hi Carl! Yes, you are the person with the big understanding. I learned t from your solution, that you can, and in this case must, do things inside