Re: Using lyrics in a markup

[Marc Hohl]

Am 15.01.2011 21:51, schrieb Neil Puttock:
> On 15 January 2011 19:01, Marc Hohl<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Now I wonder whether it is possible to create a kind of text book by
> > including the lyrics in a markup, perhaps with a scheme function which
> > replaces the " -- " by "".
> >
> > Is it possible to store the text in a variable?
> Store the lyrics first, then extract the text from the LyricEvent objects:
>
> \version "2.13.46"
>
> words = \lyricmode { This is my ex -- am -- ple text }
>
> text =
> #(map (lambda (x) (ly:music-property x 'text))
>            (extract-named-music words 'LyricEvent))
>
> melody = \relative c' { c4 d e f | g a c2 }
>
> \new Voice { \melody }
> \addlyrics { \words }
>
> #(markup* (make-line-markup text))
>
> For simplicity I've ignored hyphens, but it shouldn't be too difficult
> to add them (or use their position in the list of strings to restore
> the hyphenated words).
Thanks for this solution! I'll investigate further how to concatenate
the syllables of the hyphenated words ...

Regards,

Marc
> Cheers,
> Neil