Re: Rest in Lyrics

[Thomas Morley]

2015-08-02 23:00 GMT+02:00 Alberto Simões <address@hidden>:
> Hello
>
> I know it is not a common practice, but I would like to put in the middle of
> the lyrics text, a quarter rest (in parenthesis), in order to make it clear
> that nothing should be sang in that note (and also because I am trying to
> copy what was written by the composer).
>
> I tried to look up in the snippets repository, but didn't find anything
> useful (probably didn't look properly).
>
> Thank you,
> Alberto
>
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Try:

{ c''4 d'' e'' f'' }
\addlyrics {
  c d \markup { \raise #0.8 \parenthesize \fontsize #-6 \rest #"4" } f
}


HTH,
  Harm