Re: Skipping notes with a hyphenated word

[Trevor Daniels]

-Eluze wrote Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:38 PM

> Father Horton wrote:
> > I'm trying to set two verses. Verse 1 has an extra note, and it's 
> > no
> > problem
> > to get rid of it in verse 2 with \skip. The problem is that the 
> > word in
> > verse 2 is actually a hyphenated word, so a hyphen of some sort 
> > _must_
> > appear.
> >
> > Using \skip won't work because a lyric hyphen doesn't like having 
> > a skip
> > at
> > the end.
> not sure i understand the problem fully - i tried the following 
> under
> \version "2.13.6" and for me there *is* a hyphen between la and la 
> in the
> 2nd verse:
>
> lyricsTwo = \lyricmode { la -- \skip 4 la }

Yes, this works for me too.

But if you still have a problem the simplest
alternative is to hard-code the hyphen:

lyricsTwo = \lyricmode { la "-" la }

Trevor