Re: Hiding a voice (or is there a better way?)

[David Kastrup]

james <address@hidden> writes:

> On Jan 14, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Tim Rowe wrote:
>
>> On 14 January 2013 06:12, james <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> You could theoretically use \hideNotes and simply enclose both the
>>> right hand piano and the voice line in a << >> construct, but
>>> lilypond will complain of collision errors (which are not
>>> visible). This is assuming that the piano plays on some beats that
>>> the singer doesn't sing. If, in fact, the singer singer every
>>> single beat that the piano plays, you could just assign a name to
>>> the right hand piano voice and align the lyrics to that.
>> 
>> The piano plays quite a few beats that the singer doesn't. I'm
>> beginning to think that manual syllable durations might have to be the
>> way to go.
>
> I don't know if it still does, but this used to have the problem that
> the syllables were left-aligned rather than centered under the notes…

I think that may be just a matter of setting associatedVoice.

-- 
David Kastrup