Re: Lyrics to rests?

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/5/19 Adam Orris <address@hidden>:
> Hello,

Greetings,

> I want to place lyrics with a rest.  Can I do this, or do I need to
> use a _\markup and then manually move the text so that it aligns
> vertically with the rest of the lyrics?  In the example below, I want
> the second "1" to line up with the eight rest.

No. Theoretically you should never have to use \markup to print lyrics.

> \version 2.11

You need to enclose "2.11" between double quotes, by the way.

> \addlyrics {
>  "1" "+ 2 " "+" "3" "4" | "1" "+ 2 +" "3   4"
> }

You are using explicit durations here; please read
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Manual-syllable-durations

In other words, LilyPond considers that each syllable has its own
duration. Like with notes, if you don't specify any duration yourself,
LilyPond will assume you're using only quarter notes, like if you had
typed:

"1"4 "+ 2 "4 "+"4 "3"4 "4"4 | "1"4 "+ 2 +"4 "3   4"4

(notice that the first measure has actually 5 beats here: that's why
the second measure will be shifted to the right)

Instead, you might want to enter the same rhythm as the melody:

"1"8 "+ 2 "4 "+"8 "3"4 "4" | "1"8 "+ 2 +"4. "3   4"2

Cheers,
Valentin