Re: lyrics and \skip

[Graham Okely]

Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Arjan Bos wrote:
>> The solution proposed by Mats still completely eludes me. It does 
>> something with the difference between \new lyrics and \context lyrics 
>> and the differences are still not clear to me, even after using 
>> lilypond for more than 2 years.
> The idea is very simple
> 
> \new Lyrics = "mainlyrics" \lyricsto "melody" ...
> 
> creates a new lyrics context (think of it as a line of lyrics or a 
> verse) with a specified name "mainlyrics".
> 
> \context Lyrics = "mainlyrics" \lyricsto "verse" ...
> 
> does not create a new context (i.e. a new line of lyrics). Rather, since a
> Lyrics context name "mainlyrics" already exists, it tells LilyPond to put
> the lyrics into this already existing context, which in practice means
> that
> the words will end up on the same line.
> 
>>
>> The solution I have is very simple. I just insert the following in 
>> every .ly file and use some binary counting for my skips.
>> skipOne = \lyricmode { \skip 1 }
>> skipTwo = \lyricmode { \skipOne \skipOne }
>> skipFour = \lyricmode { \skipTwo \skipTwo }
>> skipSix = \lyricmode { \skipTwo \skipFour }
>> skipEight = \lyricmode {\skipFour \skipFour }
>> skipSixteen = \lyricmode {\skipEight \skipEight}
>> skipThirtytwo = \lyricmode {\skipSixteen \skipSixteen }
>>
>> And if I then need a \skip 1 * 40  I simply insert a \skipThritytwo 
>> \skipEight into my lyrics.
>>
> 
> A much simpler version of this was proposed in an earlier email in this 
> thread:
> \repeat unfold 40 {\skip 1}
> 
> However, once you learn to work with named contexts, I definitely 
> recommend to
> use that principle instead.
> 
>    /Mats
> 
> Mats
> Can you explain that again?:confused:
> Does your explanation mean you can align the lyrics with notes that are
> typeset after the intro notes?
> Thanks
> Graham
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