Re: braces in the lyrics

[Tim Litwiller]

sorry for replying to myself - I don't see that the frist attempt 
reached the list.

Timothy C Litwiller wrote:
> A friend of mine composed a song and we have some similar layouts in 
> our Church songbooks
> look like this attached braces.jpg
>
> You sing to the start of the chorus on the first line of the first 
> verse the return to the second line of the the first verse and
> after you get to the choruse the second time then you sing the chorus 
> before the second verse starts
>
> He says he could have made it a six verse song as that was how the 
> inspiration came, but it gets too long singing the chorus after every 
> verse so he combined the verses. He would like a brace after the 
> stanza number combining the two lines that make up each verse.
> I have this code
> leftbrace = \markup { \override #'(font-encoding . fetaBraces) \lookup 
> #"brace70" }
> rightbrace = \markup { \rotate #180 \leftbrace }
>
> and the LSR has an example of using it - but only to end several 
> verses and go to the chorus - not 3 stacked with 2 lyrics lines after 
> them.
>
>
> How would I go about laying this out. I have the notes and a lyrics 
> line defined for each line of lyrics liuke they are six verses  but 
> every other line doesn't have a set stanza with a number in it.
>
> and second question how do I make the midi it creates play the verse 
> twice and then the chorus when it is laid out this way.
>
>
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First try didn't go thru - I suspect the jpg image blocked it
anyways this is a representation of what i want 
1. | first   -   line of first      verse |
   | second  line of first      verse |

2. | first  -   line of second verse |
   | second line of second verse |

3. | first  -   line of     third verse |
   | second line of     third verse |

   words of chorus words of chorus



where the 2 | in front of the words of the verse are a { that reaches 
across both lines and at the end of the verse a similar } that lets the 
singer know that they need to return to the second line of the verse 
before going on to the chorus.

I'll try to get the .jpg with the