Re: lyrics free from notes

[Alan Jones]

This is exactly what I need, thank you!
As Trevor suggests I'm looking for something like beat counts.  I'm using lyrics to
annotate harmonic changes which usually, but not always, follow a base voice.
Alan

On 6/4/07, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

Why not use the method described in the manual , section "Lyrics independent
of notes"? Here's Trevor's example using that technique:

\version "2.10.0"

\new Staff <<
  \new Voice {
     \time 3/4
     c'4 c'2
  }
  \new Devnull = "ref" {
     c'4 c'4 c'4
  }
  \new Lyrics \lyricsto "ref" {
     one two three
  }
>>

   /Mats
Trevor Bača wrote:
> On 6/4/07, Stan Sanderson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Alan Jones wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I need a way to specify which beats the words of my
>> > lyrics fall on independent of the voice that they are
>> > associated with.  In the attached example I have
>> > three words that I want on the corresponding beats:
>> > one, two, three.  However, because the voice has a
>> > half note for the last two beats Lilypond overlaps the
>> > words 'two' and 'three' -- even though I've tried to override
>> > by placing length numbers after every word.  I do want
>> > the words to follow the music, for example if some
>> > accidentals move the horizontal placement of the beat, etc.
>> > Thanks for any help!
>> > Alan
>> >
>>
>> I hope I'm not misinterpreting your question, but have you tried an
>> underscore between the words?
>>
>> \version "2.10.17"
>> \score {
>>    \new PianoStaff <<
>>      \time 3/4
>> <<
>>      \new Voice {
>>        \key g \major
>>        b4 a2
>>      }
>>      \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
>>        one two_three
>>      }
>>  >>
>>  >>
>> }
>>
>>
>> Stan
>
> If what Alan's looking for is something like beat counts running below
> the staff, then the following hack is available to print lyrics
> attaching to an independent (and forcibly invisible) voice:
>
> %%% BEGIN %%%
>
> \version "2.11.22"
>
> \new Staff <<
>   \new Voice {
>      \time 3/4
>      c'4 c'2
>   }
>   \new Voice = "ref" {
>      \override Score.NoteColumn #'ignore-collision = ##t
>      \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t
>      \override Stem #'transparent = ##t
>      \override NoteHead #'no-ledgers = ##t
>      c'4 c'4 c'4
>   }
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "ref" {
>      one two three
>   }
>>>
>
> %%% END %%%
>
>
> This is less than ideal; all the stuff about overriding the different
> note grobs to transparent should really be something like ...
>
>   \new Voice = "ref" {
>      s4 s4 s4
>   }
>
> ... or possibly ...
>
>   \new Voice = "ref" {
>      \override Rest #'invisible = ##t
>      r4 r4 r4
>   }
>
> ... instead. But neither of those cleaner versions work: Lily treats
> skips different than notes and rests when it comes to the attachment
> of spanner start and stop points and also, it would appear, in
> recognizing whether a Voice has actually started or not; in the
> skips-based example, I don't Lily ever instantiates the reference
> voice in the first place, making lyrics attachment impossible.
>
>
>
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