Thanks very much for all the suggestions. I had asked for an easy way! Also, I'm not 100% fussed about the exact layout as it's only for an example.
So I'm afraid that David's and Urs's solutions are overkill.
Rutger's seems good, - I hadn't realised you could use a repeatTie without a repeat! But I want th laisserVibrer tie to match the length of the bar. I tried changing its length using
but this doesn't seem to have any effect on the length of the tie. Instead it changes the amount of room after the tie, which is exactly what I don't want. I also tried
with the same result. Any ideas on how to do this?
Ben's is the easiest, but ties the markup to the music. Not a great problem in my case, as I can split the music where I want it first and add the text later.
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Thursday, July 25, 2019, 8:27:07 PM, David Wright wrote:
>> Le 25 juil. 2019 à 16:45, Peter Toye <address@hidden> a écrit :
>> Alternating text and music I want to engrave a piano piece, and have lines of text between the staff groups. I know I can do this with several \score blocks, but unfortunately there are a lot of tied notes at the ends of some of the lines, which need to be engraved, at both the end and the start of each line.
>> Is there any easy way of doing this? I'm not very good at the \markup command :(
> On Thu 25 Jul 2019 at 19:14:40 (+0100), Peter Toye wrote:
>> Something like this but with the tie between the staves.
> The easiest way I know, and which gives you total control, is to:
> set your single \score with one system per page, ie line ≡ page,
> burst¹ the PDF into separate PDF pages, your raw material,
> crop² them so that they're not encumbered with white margins,
> and assemble³ the cropped PDFs and text into the pages/book.
> It's basically what lilypond-book does, but
> lets LP divide the score
> into systems itself. You might need to set
> breakbefore to clear any
> titling from the first line of music, and of course you don't want
> LP's own pagenumbering.
> Problems: your final .tex file will need to be kept in sync if
> you make changes in the score that alters the linebreaking. This
> can be ameliorated if you're using \break
> directives in the score.
> Other methods:
> Problem with markup: your text is tied to musical elements rather
> than the pages you're building.
> Problem with laissezVibrer/repeatTie: you have to slice and dice
> the music yourself, and that interferes with other elements of
> the scores like dynamics, octavation, etc.