Re: group music per measure

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 05:19 pm, Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
> Nicolas Sceaux <address@hidden> writes:
> > Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Nicolas Sceaux writes:
> >>> This is absolutely useless
> >>
> >> This is absolutely fantastic.  (Certain) users have been requesting
> >> this for years, it is AFAIK one of the big perceived advantages of MUP
> >> over Lily.
> >>
> >> Would it be feasible to add lyrics and include this in the standard
> >> distribution (ie: add proper documentation)?
> >>
> >> Jan.
> >
> > I tried to do that before posting. My idea was do to something like
> > this:
> >
> > \splitMusic #'(Staff Lyric) {
> >   c' d' e' f' | bon -- jour mon -- sieur
> >   d' e' f' g' | bla bla bla bla
> > }
> >
> > but this is not possible as is, for it would require to mix notemode
> > and lyricmode, and the parser don't like that. Had I succeeded, I
> > would not have said that it was useless :-)
> >
> > nicolas
>
> I was just thinking about a possible hack, something that would
> allow to write for instance:
>
> ##s(Staff Lyric) {
>   c' d' e' f' | bon -- jour mon -- sieur
>   d' e' f' g' | bla bla bla bla

This is what sly is for.  daveA