RE: No lyrics for first 8 bars

[Ed Ardzinski]

I've only recently working with \lyricmode (and with a very old version) but seems that I get around that by using the capital R rests...

R1 * 8

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> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:46:08 +0100
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: No lyrics for first 8 bars
>
> There are - at least - two ways.
>
> The quick and dirty one is to substitute the _ _ _ by \repeat unfold
> 20 { \skip 1 }
> (where 20 should be the number of notes).
>
> The more elegant way can be found here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00190.html
>
> (I myself always use the first way :-/)
>
>
> Dominic
>
>
> 2007/10/28, sjha <address@hidden>:
> >
> > Hopefully a simple question...I have a jazz lead sheet with melody, chords
> > and lyrics. However the first 8 bars are an introduction without lyrics. The
> > only way I have managed to achieve this is in \lyricmode is by counting the
> > number of notes and inserting the same number of underscores (_ _ _ etc).
> > This seems very inelegant. Is there not a better way of instructing the
> > lyrics to start only at bar 9?
>
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