Hello Jean-Pierre!

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:12:07PM +0100, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
> I wish to add a text like "con............................fuoco" below the
> staff with \zcharnote, but I want "con" and "fuoco" to remain vertically 
> aligned with some specific notes, and the space between them to be filled 
> with dots.
> 
> Is there any way to use \dotfill between two distinct uses of \zcharnote? 

Setting lyrics with hyphenated melismas does practically the same thing, 
only that it fills the space with hyphens instead of dots - so why not 
abuse musixlyr for this task? See the example below.

Best regards,

Rainer


(... beware of unwanted line breaks ...)
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\input musixtex \input musixlyr

\setlyrics{cf}{con-fuoco}
\assignlyrics1{cf}
\def\lyrhyphenchar{.}        % fill with dots instead of hyphens
\minmulthyphens3mm           % adjust dot distance (matter of taste)

\instrumentnumber1
\startpiece
\znotes\lyricsoff\en         % in this score, we don't want lyrics
                             % to appear at every note
\NOTes\hu c\llyr\lyr\hu d\en % here's the start ...
\bar
\NOTes\hu b\hu c\en \bar
\NOTes\hu d\hu c\en \bar
\NOTes\llyr\lyr\hu c\hu d\en % ... and here's the end
\Endpiece
\end
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