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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Gaps in lyrics
From:       karl () aspodata ! se
Date:       2016-04-26 20:13:57
Message-ID: 20160426201357.273D2818B84A () turkos ! aspodata ! se
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Tim Slattery:
> I'm setting a song with two verses. It's a madrigal, so there are
> fairly long stretches of "fa la la..." that are identical in the two
> verses. I'd like to have them "fa la la" part printed only once.
> 
> So...I've set verse one with all the words, including "fa la la".
> That's fine. I'd like to have verse two show only the different words,
> and leave a space where the "fa la la" is. 
> 
> But I can't figure out how to tell Lily to not match word to the
> stretch of notes that correspond to the "fa la la" for the second
> verse. 
> 
> It looks like I could use \skip ... but I'd have to have one for each
> note to be skipped. Is there a way to tell Lilypond how many notes or
> measures to skip?

 I have an old example in:
http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/musik/songs/anon_uti-vaar-hage.ly

 the result is at page 10 of
http://turkos.aspodata.se/noter/songs/sommar.pdf

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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