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Re: Spacing with \new Lyrics and a full measure rest.


From: Hwaen Ch'uqi
Subject: Re: Spacing with \new Lyrics and a full measure rest.
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 08:02:06 -0500

Greetings Simon, Jan-Peter, and Trevor,

Thank you all for your help; it was most informative, especially as I
will be encountering many like situations going forward with this
project!

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 3/1/16, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> "Simon Albrecht wrote Tuesday, March 01, 2016 10:37 AM
>
>
>> On 01.03.2016 11:04, Hwaen Ch'uqi wrote:
>>> Greetings All,
>>>
>>> This is an example from a vocal score for a musical. What is the best
>>> way of ensuring that the barline and subsequent measure respects the
>>> length of the spoken text rather than the full bar rest?
>>
>> Add a Bar_engraver to the Lyrics context. The BarLine will be made very
>> small, so it’s invisible, but the LyricTexts still have to avoid it:
>
> A further trick is shown in the NR which may be better under some
> circumstances as it makes the bar and the lyrics the same length.
> See
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/opera-and-stage-musicals#dialogue-over-music
>
> But this section in the NR doesn't mention adding the Bar_engraver.
> That would be a useful addition.
>
> Applied to your music:
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> \score {
>    <<
>      \new Voice = "Darcy" \relative c' {
>        \key es \major \time 3/2 \clef treble
>        <<
>      {
>        R1.^\fermataMarkup %170
>      }
>      \new Lyrics \with {
>        \consists "Bar_engraver"
>        \override LyricText.font-shape = #'italic
>        \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
>      }
>      {
>        \lyricmode {
>          \markup {
>            \column {
>          \line {
>            \fontsize #1 \upright \smallCaps Esther: "Oh. It's just what
> I've
> always"
>          }
>            }
>          }8*10
>           "wanted!"8*2
>        }
>      }
>        >>
>        \override NoteHead.style = #'cross
>        bes'8^\markup \fontsize #1 \smallCaps Chorus r r4 r1\bar "|." %171
>
>      }
>      \new Lyrics \lyricsto "Darcy" {
>        \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #1.0
>        \set lyricMelismaAlignment = #CENTER
>        jah!
>      }
>    >>
> }
> \layout {
>    \context {
>      \Lyrics
>      \override BarLine.bar-extent = #'(-0.0001 . 0.0001)
>    }
> }
>



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