Re: stanzas outside the music

[Jeffrey Philpott]

Having often to set songs with perhaps extra verses, I've found that the 
most comfortable way of implementing lots of text is by combining 
lilypond-book and latex to produce the desired effect, especially if 
there's no necessity of fitting the lyrics to the music itself.

Jeffrey


> Here's an example which I put together late last year - I know it's
> lengthy, but it shows what can be done.
>
>  I would much prefer if I could input verse text into a variable and
> then either put it between the staves or as a freestanding verse at
> the end, using high level functions rather than layout specific
> markup. Should we approach Han-Wen to see if this could be a feature
> candidate for v 2.9?
>
> Dunstan
>
>
> On 18/02/06, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> > > Did you search the mailing list archives? There have been several nice
> > > examples of how to use a \markup{...} below the score to typeset
> > > additional stanzas. Also, there is a brief indication in the manual (at
> > > least the one for version 2.7, which mostly also
> > > applies to earlier versions) in the section on "File structure".
> > >
> > >   /Mats
> > >
> > > Quoting cordilow <address@hidden>:
> >    
> >
> > > > >
> > > > > A long time ago, I asked how to put stanzas outside the music.  Hymns often
> > > > > have lots of verses and all of them aren't always included in the music
> > > > > (some are just written outside of the music, to save space, without syllable
> > > > > markings).  Someone told me that the documentation explained how to do
> > > > > this--however, I've searched the documentation and haven't found a way--at
> > > > > least, I searched for everything relating to stanzas/verses that I could
> > > > > find.
> > > > >
> > > > > Note: my reasons for wanting this are not the same as my reasons for the
> > > > > left-align thing from my last post.
> > > > > --
> > > > > View this message in context:
> > > > > http://www.nabble.com/stanzas-outside-the-music-t1143278.html#a2997524
> > > > > Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User forum at Nabble.com.
> > > > >
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