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

[René Brandenburger]

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
> >> >
> >
>