Re: is it possible to glue two staff's together? (hymn solution)

[Ted Walther]

Rene, thanks for continuing to look into this.  If there is a way to
"close the gap", this will work.

But it does seem more clear conceptually to start up a new staff and do
what I need to in the new staff.  Then we would just need to glue the
staves together, as one car in a train follows another.

Ted

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:31:49AM +0200, Ren? Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>
> there you could try to create an own context c inbetween context a and b
> and try to get it take up no space between the two other context, but
> I'm not sure about the property to tweak there, perhaps one of the
> lilypond gurus can help there . I played around with maximum-Y-extent
> and minimum-Y-extent, but only managed to get more space, not less
> though.
>
> you should have something like this
>
> lyrics: {context a { attached to melody       }                        }
>        {context c { tweaked to take no space }{ attached to refrain } } 
>        {context b { attached to melody       }                        }
>
> Am Montag, den 08.10.2007, 14:51 -0700 schrieb Ted Walther:
> > Thanks Rene.  I was hoping for something free-floating; for instance, if
> > I have 3 verses, and in the refrain there are two vocal parts, I'd like
> > it to look like this, but without the gap:
> >
> > notes:  {context   melody ..............}{context refrain .......}
> > lyrics: {context a { attached to melody }                        }
> >          {context ?                       { attached to refrain } }
> >          {context b { attached to melody }                        }
> >          {context ?                       { attached to refrain } }
> >          {context c { attached to melody }                        }
> >
> > Your technique does work very nicely for attaching the refrain
> > separately.  How about when there are an even number of verses?
> >
> > lyrics: {context a { attached to melody }                        }
> >          {context ?                       { attached to refrain } }
> >          {context b { attached to melody }                        }
> >
> > Ted
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 02:02:32PM +0200, Ren? Brandenburger wrote:
> > >Hi Ted,
> > >
> > >i had a look at our file, in line 97, you create a new Lyrics context to
> > >take the refrain, if you change it to 
> > >
> > >\lyricsto "refrain" \context Lyrics = b {
> > >
> > >as you want the refrain to show up in the same line as the words of the
> > >second stanza. 
> > >
> > >what you actually get is the following:
> > >
> > ><preformatted>
> > >
> > >notes:  {context   melody ..............}{context refrain .......}
> > >lyrics: {context a { attached to melody }                        }
> > >        {context b { attached to melody }{ attached to refrain } }
> > >        {context c { attached to melody }                        }
> > >
> > ></end preformatted>
> > >
> > >hope this helps
> > >
> > >best regard
> > >
> > >rene
> > >
> > >
> > >Am Montag, den 08.10.2007, 03:27 -0700 schrieb Ted Walther:
> > >> Rene, thanks for the suggestion.  You've really done a tremendous job
> > >> with Allouette.  It looked like it should work, and it almost did work.
> > >> Here is the lilypond file, and the resulting PDF:
> > >> 
> > >> http://hymns.reactor-core.org/lilypond/refrain2.ly
> > >> http://hymns.reactor-core.org/lilypond/refrain2.pdf
> > >> 
> > >> Did I make some mistake?
> > >> 
> > >> Ted
> > >> 
> > >> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:31:43PM +0200, Ren? Brandenburger wrote:
> > >> >Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> >perhaps the attached snippets helps, it's the way i managed to get
> > >> >something similiar working, it spits out a few warnings, but the result
> > >> >looks ok for me. 
> > >> >(see attached pdf)
> > >> >
> > >> >regards
> > >> >
> > >> >rene brandenburger
> > >> >
> > >

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