Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-17 Thread Jogchum Reitsma
Op 16-12-2022 om 13:25 schreef Jean Abou Samra: Le 16/12/2022 à 10:47, Jogchum Reitsma a écrit : Hi Jean, While this work in placing the words correctly, it is, in my case, not quite flawless. If I render the attached snippet, there is no "2"-bracket above the second alternative. But if y

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jean, > I think I was not clear explaining what is OK and what is not. The golden > rule is: *if a bit of music is repeated, in the actual performance by the > player, it should be enclosed in a \repeat block, otherwise it shouldn’t*. Maybe *that* should be included in the docs…? :) Cheers

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-16 Thread Jean Abou Samra
> Le 16 déc. 2022 à 15:25, Kieren MacMillan a > écrit : > > In a certain way, the unfolded example is inconsistent, right? Shouldn’t it > be something like […] > > Otherwise, you have an example with music that has a \repeat command and > lyrics that don’t… This doc example is not a prob

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Xavier, > This is also what is recommended in the documentation, there is even a whole > section dedicated to lyrics and repeats, and in particular repeats with > alternative (with special cases of melisma, extenders and hyphens, etc). > Cf. NR 2.1.2 Techniques specific to lyrics > Lyrics and

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-16 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 16/12/2022 à 10:47, Jogchum Reitsma a écrit : Hi Jean, While this work in placing the words correctly, it is, in my case, not quite flawless. If I render the attached snippet, there is no "2"-bracket above the second alternative. But if you comment out the lyrics part, the "problem" has

Re: Fwd: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-16 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 16/12/2022 à 10:40, Jogchum Reitsma a écrit : Hi, without a doubt it is my bad, but while I've spend quite some time looking for this in the documentation, I didn't come across it. Looked, among a lot of other places, in https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/notation/common-notation-

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-16 Thread Jogchum Reitsma
Op 15-12-2022 om 16:27 schreef Jean Abou Samra: <...> As said in another thread [1], I would recommend using the \repeat construct in the lyrics too: \version "2.23.82" theMusic = {   \repeat volta 2 {     g'4 4 4 4     \alternative { { f'1 } { c''1 } }   } } theLyrics = \lyricmode {   \re

Fwd: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-16 Thread Jogchum Reitsma
Have sent it to Xavier, in stead of to the list - apologies! Jogchum Op 15-12-2022 om 20:38 schreef Xavier Scheuer: On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 16:29, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > As said in another thread [1], I would recommend using the \repeat > construct in the lyrics too: > Hello, This is a

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-16 Thread Jogchum Reitsma
Ah!  Thanks a lot.  Kieren also for taking the effort! regards, Jogchum Op 15-12-2022 om 16:27 schreef Jean Abou Samra: Le 15/12/2022 à 14:57, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi Jogchum, I suppose it is very simple, but I can't find it in documentation, or here on the list. How can one set diffe

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-15 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 16:29, Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > As said in another thread [1], I would recommend using the \repeat > construct in the lyrics too: > Hello, This is also what is recommended in the documentation, there is even a whole section dedicated to lyrics and repeats, and in parti

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > As said in another thread [1], I would recommend > using the \repeat construct in the lyrics too Oops! Right… It‘s going to take a while to undo my instincts from twenty years of coding the old way! LOL Cheers, Kieren.

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-15 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 15/12/2022 à 14:57, Kieren MacMillan a écrit : Hi Jogchum, I suppose it is very simple, but I can't find it in documentation, or here on the list. How can one set different lyrics to alternative ending? It is simple — so simple, you probably didn’t think it would work: \version "2.23.14"

Re: Setting lytics to alternative endings

2022-12-15 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Jogchum, > I suppose it is very simple, but I can't find it in documentation, or here on > the list. > How can one set different lyrics to alternative ending? It is simple — so simple, you probably didn’t think it would work: \version "2.23.14" theMusic = { \repeat volta 2 { g'4 4 4