RE: Some general comments

[Anthony Youngman]

That sort of works ... but if Ian wants what I want, then it's a lot
more work than just that ...

This would be a very good example for Fairchild's "AllAbout"s.
Certainly, until I clean it up, my version is a mess. I've got a
linebreak at the barline where my ossia starts ... with the result that
between two consecutive bars I have THREE different barlines! Plus an
unterminated empty measure (not to mention an unwanted time signature,
which I couldn't work out how to remove because I didn't read the manual
properly :-) 

Oh for more time to play and write it all up ... not that they're meant
to be anything else but all the ossia examples in the manual are at a
"here's a tip to get you started" level.

Cheers,
Wol

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Sent: 28 June 2006 10:16
To: Ian Hawthorn
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Subject: Re: Some general comments

Ian Hawthorn wrote:
> 1. An extra lyric line is needed for harmony parts for a few bars.
> 
> 2. An extra staff and lyric line for a soloist is required for one
section.

To add an extra staff, look up "ossia".  It works something like this:

{
c4 c c c
<< {c4 c c c}
\new Staff { e4 e e e }
 >>
c4 c c c
}

For more details, search the documentation and LSR.  I'm not certain how

to add lyrics to this, since I don't do vocal music.

> 3. The lyrics for one section need to be aligned to a different part
> than they are in the rest of the piece.

I believe that this point was addressed in some recent documentation 
work (in the 2.9 docs; not yet available in the 2.8 docs).


> There are workarounds for these things I know, some in the
> documentation and some in the examples or discussed in this forum.
> But they are NOT easy to use and here is why.
> 
> To an arranger these are simple events which happen at a
> particular time and which you'd like to deal with via a simple
> command at the point where they happen

I think the ossia example is fairly easy.  Lyrics may be much harder to 
deal with; I don't know.

Cheers,
- Graham


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