Re: Lyric spacing confusion

[Laurie Savage]

Thanks, that clarifies it. I assumed the numbers referred to duration - the same as entering notes in the melody.

Laurie

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 at 09:55, Leo Correia de Verdier <leo.correia.de.verdier@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Laurie

\addlyrics (like \lyricsto ) discards the lyric's durations and uses durations from the voice the lyrics are attached to. The twelve ones in the beginning are creating twelve empty syllables, whose durations are then discarded and replaced with the twelve ”syllable-places” in the intro. If you try the alternative below you can see how it works:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
verse = \lyricmode {
  % Lyrics follow here.
  a1 b1 c1 d1 e1 f1 g1 h1 i1 j1 k1 l1
  Man it's a hot one.
  Like sev -- en in -- ches from the midday sun
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

HTH
/Leo

> 20 aug. 2024 kl. 01:30 skrev Laurie Savage <savage.laurie@gmail.com>:
>
> Thank you for the clarification. Here is the code and the output:
>
> Laurie
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 at 05:55, Xavier Scheuer <x.scheuer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 02:14, Laurie Savage <savage.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to set up lyrics to start on the upbeat of beat 4 in bar four of a song (calling the anacrusis bar 0). I succeeded but I'm very puzzled.
>
> Hello,
>
> Sorry but it is difficult to try to help you.
> You do not give the complete code for your output and the only part of code you "share" is as a screenshot (instead of text).
> Are you sure you do not use \lyricsto before \verse ?
>
> Kind regards,
> Xavier
>