vertical braces in the lyrics - I'm stuck

2008-04-14 Thread Tim Litwiller
I am really stuck and would appreciate some help. I have tried just about every which way there is and I apparently don't understand the concept here. I am trying to enter braces at the beginning of the song. I was suggested that they should go in the set stanza part of the lyrics and I

Re: vertical braces in the lyrics - I'm stuck

2008-04-14 Thread Neil Puttock
Hi Tim, On 14/04/2008, Tim Litwiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am really stuck and would appreciate some help. I have tried just about every which way there is and I apparently don't understand the concept here. I am trying to enter braces at the beginning of the song. I was suggested

Re: vertical braces in the lyrics - I'm stuck

2008-04-14 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
Neil Puttock wrote: Hi Tim, On 14/04/2008, Tim Litwiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am really stuck and would appreciate some help. I have tried just about every which way there is and I apparently don't understand the concept here. I am trying to enter braces at the beginning of the

Re: braces in the lyrics

2008-04-11 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
The bracket has to be in quotes http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Text-markup-introduction#Text-markup-introduction Ok, here are the first line of the fist verse stanzaOneOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = 1. { Child, you're mine and I love you. Lend thine ear to

Re: braces in the lyrics

2008-04-10 Thread Wilbert Berendsen
Op dinsdag 8 april 2008, schreef Timothy C Litwiller: How would I go about laying this out. I have the notes and a lyrics line defined for each line of lyrics liuke they are six verses  but every other line doesn't have a set stanza with a number in it. Try putting the brace in the stanza

Re: braces in the lyrics

2008-04-10 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
Wilbert Berendsen wrote: Op dinsdag 8 april 2008, schreef Timothy C Litwiller: .. other line doesn't have a set stanza with a number in it. Try putting the brace in the stanza number, and move the (big) brace down somewhat using some markup commands (fontsize, raise, or translate,

Re: braces in the lyrics

2008-04-08 Thread Tim Litwiller
sorry for replying to myself - I don't see that the frist attempt reached the list. Timothy C Litwiller wrote: A friend of mine composed a song and we have some similar layouts in our Church songbooks look like this attached braces.jpg You sing to the start of the chorus on the first line of