Re: lyrics alignment in fold percent

[Luis Guillermo Agudelo]

Erick, Thank you very much for your reply.

As I mentioned, I am not currently dealing with traditional western music 
but Russian church sort of music. They use the repeat sign quite oftenly and 
you are supposed to sing all the lyrics underneath the repeat sign "//" on 
the same pitch and duration as the note before.

I guess the solution you proposed will work but I believe it is quite 
un-elegant because in essence, the repetition sign is just an abbreviation 
but the notes still exists in the score and must be played whether they are 
explicit or not (unfolded or folded). This is why I believe the lyrics 
should be right underneath the "//" sign without having to make use of 
tricks and tweeks like the one you are proposing.

Thanks again.
Cheers!
Luis

> From: Erik Sandberg <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> CC: "Luis Guillermo Agudelo" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: lyrics alignment in fold percent
> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 01:30:56 +0200
>
> > Dear lilypond users,
> >
> > I noticed that in the discussion log, there is quite a lot already about
> > lyrics and alignment but I quite didn't see the problem I am having now. 
> I
> > believe it is a bug.
> >
> > When using repeat percent, the lyrics do not get aligned with the
> > "//"(repeat) sign according to the number of repetitions of the note.
>
> I have never seen this notation practise; usually there are notes for every
> syllable. It is unclear how you would expect the syllables to be aligned
> under a percent repeat, in case you have more than one note repeated.
>
> If lyrics below percent signs are not a commonly used notation, I don't
> consider this behaviour a bug. (you are however most welcome to prove me
> wrong)
>
> In any case, I think you could achieve what you want by unfolding the music 
> to
> a dummy voice, which you make invisible, and then adding lyrics to that
> voice. This could be done something like this:
>
> <<
>   \context Staff = "melody" <<
>     \context Voice=notes \melody
>     \context Voice=invisible {
>       \override Rest #'transparent = ##t
>       \override NoteHead #'transparent = ##t
>       \override Stem #'transparent = ##t
>       \override Beam #'transparent = ##t
>       \unfoldrepeats \melody
>     }
>   >>
>   \lyricsto "invisible" \new Lyrics \firstVerse
> >>
>
>
> --
> Erik Sandberg
> Maintainer of the Lilypond bug CVS archive,
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/lilypond/lily-bugs/bugs/
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/bugs/out/index.html

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