Re: Percussion with lyrics

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi,

> Well, I'd rather not see the (empty) staff there. It will only take up space! 
> Both your snippets show an empty 'voice' staff (that I'm not particularly 
> interested in :-) )

Then maybe you should be more specific with your requests…

%%%  SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.22.1"

\header {
  title = \markup \concat { "Oh, but it " \underline "does" " work!" }
  instrument = "Frog / Cajonga's"
}

\paper {
  left-margin = 20
}

\layout {
  \context {
    \Lyrics
    \consists Bar_engraver
    \consists Separating_line_group_engraver
    \hide BarLine
  }
}

global = {
  \key c \major
  \time 4/4
}

melody = {
  \repeat unfold 6 {
    a1 |
  }
}

verse = \lyricmode {
  \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
  \override LyricText.extra-offset = #'(-1 . 0)
  "Measure one and"
  ""
  "Measure two and"
  "A measure with more notes"
  ""
  "And the final one!"
}

% tomml toml tomfh
drum = \drummode {
  R1 |
  r4 hh4 hh4 r4 |
  R1 |
  R1 |
  r2 r16 toml16 toml toml r4 |
  R1 |
  \bar "|."
}

\score {
  \new DrumStaff = "staff" <<
    \new NullVoice = "aligner" << \global \melody >>
    \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "staff" } \lyricsto "aligner" \verse
    << \global \drum >>
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Score
      \remove Bar_number_engraver
    }
    \context {
      \Lyrics
      \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-affinity = #DOWN
      \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing =
        #'((basic-distance . 1 ) (padding . 1.5))
    }
    \context {
      \DrumStaff
      \consists Instrument_name_engraver
      instrumentName = \markup \center-column { "Frog" "Cajs" }
    }
  }
}
%%%  SNIPPET ENDS

Kieren
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