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Re: Vertically centering a song text.
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Vertically centering a song text. |
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Thu, 03 Dec 2015 07:32:44 +0100 |
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tisimst <address@hidden> writes:
> \skip in the Lyrics context is necessary for skipping beats without
> creating a melisma (which can be manually created with a single underscore
> for each beat in the melisma). I'm not sure why it's insensitive to the
> number after it. I have wondered the same thing, but that's the way it
> works at the moment.
Because the whole point of \addlyrics/\lyricsto is to ignore durations
and instead take items one-by-one irrespective of their length?
> Outside the Lyrics context in normal note entry, it is sensitive to
> the number.
You can write Lyrics perfectly well without \addlyrics/\lyricsto and
durations both of syllables and skips and other musical material will be
heeded.
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David Kastrup