RE: Proper use of Devnull

[Trevor Daniels]

Francisco

You wrote:

> Anyway, I still have two questions.
> From the great examples around I
> still cannot see how to do alternate
> Lyrics when the melody is the same
> but melismata are different fot each one.

The easiest way is to turn off the automatic alignment of
lyrics to slurred notes with \ignoreMelismata and to
position the syllables manually using \skip.  Here's an
example, which also turns the slurs dashed:

<<
 \relative g' {
  \clef treble
  \key g \major
  \time 4/4
  \slurDashed
  g4 g2 d4( g) a2( d,)
 }
 \addlyrics {
  \set ignoreMelismata = ##t
  O come, all ye faith -- ful,
 }
 \addlyrics {
  \set ignoreMelismata = ##t
  \skip 4 God of __ \skip 4 God, __ \skip 2
 }
>>

The related problem of placing brackets round notes which
are to be ignored in some verses, like the initial g in this
example, is not supported in LP, AFAIK, although there are a
couple of messy work-arounds in the archives.  (Search for
"brackets note")

> Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
Trevor