Re: Need help with this simple lyric

[Dominic Neumann]

Hi Peter,

to let LilyPond treat more syllables as one, easily encloses these in " ... "

On my (2.10.20) system the file compiles, but doesn´t show the cross
character. I would copy the character itself into the source code and
enclose it in "..." together with the O like "+ O".

I don´t see what the markup command within \addlyrics is for ... do you know it?

For italicizing the word "Officiant" I tried to put this before the
\set ... command:

\override VocalName #'font-shape = #'italic

But it didn´t work. If you say LyricText instead of VocalName it
works, but that´s not what you wanted.

In addition I would advise you to indent you LilyPond code for a
better reading experience, like this:

\version "2.10.20"

\new Staff{
   \override Staff.TimeSignature #'transparent = ##t
   \autoBeamOff
   \cadenzaOn
   \key g \major
   e'8 g'4 g'8 g'8 fis'8 g'8 g'4
   \bar "|"
}

\addlyrics {
   % Doesn´t work:
   \override VocalName #'font-shape = #'italic
   \set vocalName = "Officiant"
   "+ O" Lord, o -- pen thou our lips.
}




2007/7/18, peterwinson <address@hidden>:
> I am new to Lilypond and need to typeset some simple music with lyrics.  So
> this is what I have
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p11674032/matins1_a.png
>
> What I need to do now is to italicize the word "Officiant" and get Lilypond
> to treat the cross character and the letter "O" as one syllable.  Any help
> is appreciated.  The Lilypond code is as follows.  I am running Lilypond
> version 2.10.25
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p11674032/matins1_a.ly matins1_a.ly
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