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Re: More on lyrics (and repeats/stanzas/whatever)
From: |
Mats Bengtsson |
Subject: |
Re: More on lyrics (and repeats/stanzas/whatever) |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Nov 2001 17:38:27 +0100 |
> >>>>> "Maury" == Maury Merkin <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Maury> I have the "a" section fine, repeat and all for the music (all
> instruments) and the
> Maury> chord designations using the \repeat { stuph } notation however I
> haven't figured out
> Maury> how to insert the second set of lyrics.
>
> Maury> Obviously I'd like 'em to appear immediately below the first
> lyrics.
>
> Maury> I gave one feeble try based on the "Row, row, row your
> Maury> boat" example but that doesn't use the \score { stuph } and
> Maury> anyway I obviously did it all wrong. All I got was compile
> Maury> time errors.
>
> No, you need to use the Dowland example I sent. It's complicated
> enough that I never remember how to do it off the top of my head, but
> basically you have to set up a \lyrics{...} for the second set of
> words. If you want a verse number associated with the lyrics, you set
> \property LyricsVoice . stz or \property LyricsVoice . stanza, and
> then in your score you put in a Lyrics context after the staff
> context, with both sets of lyrics. The documentation for how to do
> this is in the lyrics chapter of the reference manual, under "more
> stanzas".
One trick, used in the example input/star-spangled-banner.ly,
is to use a '\repeat fold' with an empty main section and just two
alternatives:
\repeat "fold" 2 { }
\alternative {
{ This is the text of the first repeat}
{ This is the text of the second repeat}
}
/Mats