Re: Hiding a voice (or is there a better way?)

[james]

On Jan 14, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Tim Rowe wrote:

> On 14 January 2013 06:12, james <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> You could theoretically use \hideNotes and simply enclose both the right 
>> hand piano and the voice line in a << >> construct, but lilypond will 
>> complain of collision errors (which are not visible). This is assuming that 
>> the piano plays on some beats that the singer doesn't sing. If, in fact, the 
>> singer singer every single beat that the piano plays, you could just assign 
>> a name to the right hand piano voice and align the lyrics to that.
> 
> The piano plays quite a few beats that the singer doesn't. I'm
> beginning to think that manual syllable durations might have to be the
> way to go.

I don't know if it still does, but this used to have the problem that the 
syllables were left-aligned rather than centered under the notes…