RE: Extracting only lyrics and chords

[James Lowe]

Hello,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On
> Behalf Of Jürgen Ibelgaufts
> Sent: 27 January 2011 12:32
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Extracting only lyrics and chords
> 
> 
> That's what I also thought about. But making objects transparent still lets
> them occupy their space. This will result in a gap between the lyrics (below
> the staff) and the chords/frets (above the staff). If it were possible to 
> shrink
> this gap to zero, using transparency would be a good solution.
> 
> When I remove the engravers, lilypond seems to behave like this: the lyrics
> and notes seem to keep in sync until a tie or a slur occurs. It seems to me 
> that
> the notes themselves still are somehow "present" to keep the lyrics
> connected, but ties and slurs are ignored, the tied notes will behave like
> separate notes rather than "one" note.
> 
> So, we now have two half-working solutions...
> 

Sorry for jumping in but did you see

http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=536

James