Re: Three small variations on lyrics?

[Mats Bengtsson]

As you can see if you look at other emails in the same thread as
the mail cited below, you'll notics that I also had a number of
comments on that particular example.

Unfortunately, I don't know of a fast track. I'm afraid you need
to fit together a number of concepts that I realize are hard to
grasp directly the first time you see them. So, it's time to
read more in the manual, for example parts of the chapter on
"Changing Defaults".

If you send an example of what you have tried so far and what
didn't work, there may be some helpful soul out here who can
provide hints in the right direction.

The standard examples definitely need more explanation, not the
least the SATB one. See 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-08/msg00181.html
for some more hints.

   /Mats

Arjan Bos wrote:
> Mats,
>
> The example is similar, but for me (being a newbie in LilyPond) not 
> similar enough. I looked at the example and tried to figure out what was 
> going on in there. I adapted my code, but everything I tried somehow got 
> the tree stanzas in the beginning. I wanted them to start on the 14 bar, 
> lasting two bars and then 8 bars again with a single line of lyrics.
>  Is there a way to do this?
>
> And, perhaps more important, is there a document that explains why it 
> all works the way it does? The tutorial is great for getting up to speed 
> very quick, but it doesn't tell me why things are the way they are. For 
> example, the satbSample.ly (sp?) is great, but it took me many test runs 
> to find out that the order in which Lyrics and Notes are stated matters. 
> And still I don't know when to use a context, and why there are things 
> like { s1 } in there.
>
> Arjan
>
> > One similar example is provided in
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-10/msg00387.html
> >
> >    /Mats
> >
> >
> > Arjan Bos wrote:
> >
> > > Hi List,
> > > Since last weekend I started on LilyPond 2.4. I'm a newbie to 
> > > LilyPond, so this might just be a question of reading the fine manual.
> > > I have a lyric that goes as follows:
> > > "Nie -- mand is hier 1. die mij de han -- den reikt.  Nooit een dag 
> > > in je leven"
> > >                   2.      die mij troost -- en wil.
> > >                   3. die mij een toe-komst geeft.
> > > So my question is:
> > > How do I have multiple stanzas as part of the lyrics, where the first 
> > > part is fixed, then there is a part with three stanzas and finally 
> > > another fixed part?
> > > ---
>
> "You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say."
>
> -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
>
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