Re: sunday school music

[Tim Litwiller]

Thanks for that - It looks very nice and not so hard to incorporate as 
some examples.

Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi Reinhold,
>
> > The "centering" here is achieved by simply putting the common text 
> > into the
> > second stanza, which happens to be vertically centered. However, if 
> > you have
> > four stanzas, there is no way to center common text vertically. I had 
> > that
> > problem once with two stanzas, but have not found any solution to it :-(
>
> Maybe the attached (modified) snippet will help you find the answer 
> you're looking for?
> The insertion of the two braces has been left as an exercise to the 
> reader...  ;-)
>
> Best wishes,
> Kieren.
> __________________________________
>
> %%% BEGIN SNIPPET %%%
>
> \version "2.11.32"
>
> leftbrace = \markup { \override #'(font-encoding . fetaBraces) \lookup 
> #"brace240" }
> rightbrace = \markup { \rotate #180 \leftbrace }
> dropLyrics = \override LyricText #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -5)
> raiseLyrics = \revert LyricText #'extra-offset
> skipFour = \repeat unfold 4 { \skip 8 }
>
> lyricsA = \lyricmode { The first stanza has \dropLyrics the common 
> words and \raiseLyrics then they're not. }
> lyricsB = \lyricmode { The second stanza shares \skipFour before they 
> change again. }
> lyricsC = \lyricmode { In the third stanza, \skipFour notes are really 
> boring. }
> lyricsD = \lyricmode { In the final stanza, \skipFour all the rest 
> stop. }
>
> melody = \relative c' { c d e f g f e d c e d2 }
>
> \score
> {
>     <<
>         \new Voice = m \melody
>         \new Lyrics \lyricsto m \lyricsA
>         \new Lyrics \lyricsto m \lyricsB
>         \new Lyrics \lyricsto m \lyricsC
>         \new Lyrics \lyricsto m \lyricsD
>     >>
> }
>
> %%% END SNIPPET %%%
>
>
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