Re: Need advice re; text and lyrics combination(s)

[Jay Hamilton]

Uh, no that didn't do what I needed.
I should have deleted the words above the staff to make the example clearer.
The words below the staff are all lyrics to be sung when under notes and spoken 
when under either hand claps or rests so they need to be attached to their 
respective events.

By the way why does the defining of crosses on and off work?  And where is that 
'shortcut' in the manual?  I'm not sure for my purposes that I would use the 
mua|b thing as those are essentially one time insertions.

Thanks
Jay

Jay Hamilton
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--- address@hidden wrote:

From: Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: "Lilypond User" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Need advice re; text and lyrics combination(s)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:31:34 -0400

Hi Jay,

> What suggestions does anyone have to get the two lines to be  
> together so the words attached to both notes and rests line up better.

I'm not sure exactly what you want (especially, for example, with the  
bold markup "In Position..." -- is that supposed to be a subtitle?)...
Regardless, I took a stab at clearing up your code a bit -- maybe my  
edits will give you a shove in the right direction.

Hope this helps!
Kieren.
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\version "2.10.25"

\header
{
        title = "Tunnel Piece"
        composer = "Jay Hamilton"
        copyright = \markup
                {
                        \tiny \override #'(baseline-skip . 0.5)
                        \center-align
                        {
                                "CC lic 2.5 some rights reserved Jay Hamilton 
1989"
                                "see 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/";
                        }
                }
}

muA = \markup { \tiny \italic "words spoken on rests and handclaps" }
muB = \markup { \hspace #0 \raise #1.5 \bigger \bold "In Position at  
the middle of the Tunnel" }
crossesOn = \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross
crossesOff = \revert NoteHead #'style

fluteMusic = \relative c''
{
        \tempo 4=75 \time 6/8
        r4^\muA es8 des ~ des4 |
        \crossesOn bes8 bes^\muB \crossesOff r4 \crossesOn bes8 bes  
\crossesOff |
        r4 es8 des ~ des4 |
        \crossesOn bes8 bes \crossesOff r4 \crossesOn bes8 bes \crossesOff |
}

fluteLyrics = \lyricmode
{
        ay oh rack \markup { \column { RACK a } } rack a ay oh rack  a rack a
}


\score
{
        <<
                \new Staff \with { instrumentName = "Singer I" 
shortInstrumentName  
= "I." midiInstrument = "flute" }
                        << \new Voice = "flute" \fluteMusic >>
                \new Lyrics \lyricsto flute \fluteLyrics
        >>
}