Re: Multiple rhythms in same score

[Simon Albrecht]

On 24.06.2016 05:17, Don Gingrich wrote:
> When I see full scores for a number of songs published,
> it is clear that the reason that various verses are printed
> separately is that one or more bars have significantly
> different rhythm from the first verse.

This is the same case with bilingual vocal parts. Haydn’s ‘Creation’ is 
a showcase for this, because it was really composed bilingually, so I 
took the first phrase and typeset it in what I believe is the canonical way.
The appearance isn’t tweaked in any way, so the spacing is quite 
unsatisfactory yet. You will also notice that I make use of very recent 
features, namely the way to create and reference alist variables (like 
e.g. with \mus.main and \mus.alt).
I have no idea if this suits your particular needs or likings, but it 
may serve as a reference.

Best, Simon

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