AAA-intro.ly

Introduction

This document shows examples from the LilyPond Snippet Repository.

In the web version of this document, you can click on the file name or figure for each example to see the corresponding input file.

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adding-ambiti-per-voice.ly

Ambits can be added per voice. In that case, the ambitus must be moved manually to prevent collisions.

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aligning-lyrics.ly

You can specify different horizontal alignment for your lyrics, by overriding the #'self-alignment-X property of the LyricText object. #-1 is left, #0 is center and #1 is right; however, you can use #LEFT, #CENTER and #RIGHT as well.

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ambitus.ly

Ambituses indicate pitch ranges for voices.

Accidentals only show up if they're not part of key signature. AmbitusNoteHead grobs also have ledger lines.

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displaying-bar-lines-on-lyrics.ly

You can move Bar_engraver and Span_bar_engraver to a different engraving context, if you want, for example, bar lines on lyrics.

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how-to-put-ties-between-syllables-in-lyrics.ly

This can be achieved by separating those syllables by tildes.

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lyric-combine.ly

With the \lyricsto mechanism, individual lyric lines can be associated with one melody line. For each lyric line, they can be tuned whether to follow melismata or not.

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vertical-brace-spanning-several-lyrics-lines.ly

This example shows a trick to insert a vertical brace when going from several stanzas into a common ending in the lyrics. (An alternative is of course to just skip the brace, especially if you add a line break instead).

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This page is for LilyPond-2.11.28 (development-branch).

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