View source for LilyPond 2.10.33 Hymn Template Instructions

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=LilyPond=
* Check out the [http://www.lilypond.org/ LilyPond website], its tutorials, and such before you get too excited about this (you may want to learn the basics first).  Nevertheless, a few of the basics are explained here.  You'll need to install the program and get used to a text editor, the command prompt, and such too.  I recommend SciTE as a text editor for LilyPond ([[User:Veramet|Veramet]] can tell you how to configure it to compile and view the pdf, and play the midi from SciTE).

=Comments=
* Everything on a line after a percentage sign (%) is a comment.
* There is a lot of commented out code - uncommenting it will do different things to your music, unless the comment is there for documentation purposes.

=Composer/Poet=
==Why are there two sections for this?==
* Well, there's the standard way where they show up at the top, and then there's the more (what I consider to be) hymn-like way where they show up at the bottom.  Try them both out and see which way you like.

=Lyrics=

==Getting Lyrics to Show Up==
* First of all, type out your lyrics
** i.e. the first verse would be at the end of the section that starts with ''sopWords = \lyricmode''; the second verse lyrics go in the section entitled ''sopWordsTwo = \lyricmode'', and so on.
* There are two things to uncomment, for each verse/stanza:
** %\context Lyrics = sopranos \lyricsto sopranos \sopWords
** %\new Lyrics = sopranos { s1 }

==How do I get lyrics to show up outside of the music?==
* That's not within the scope of this template, sadly, but you can find out in the LilyPond documentation.  It's kind of like adding the composer at the bottom.

==What about different alto, tenor, and bass lyrics?==
* Write your lyrics in the section for those parts (you may have to create them if you have many verses).
* Move the line that says ''%\new Lyrics = basses { s1 }'', or such, to its proper position in the score: i.e. the bass section would go between 161 and 162 of your file.

=Where do I put my notes?=
* Put the soprano part on line 127, the alto after line 133, the tenor after line 155, and the bass after line 160.

==What if I have more than four parts?==
* Well, this is an SATB template, but there are ways.
** If you want extra clefs and such, you may need a new template - or make a new one based off of this one.
** If you want it all on two clefs, just use notation for chords.
*** For a c major chord (with the duration of a quarter note), type the following in place of the notation for a note: <g' e' c'>4 (this could be put in the soprano section for three different soprano notes)
*** If you want polyphonic music (with moving parts) that has more than four parts, try the following <<{}{}>> (put the top notes, including durations, in the first set of brackets; put the bottom ones in the second; you can create a third set of brackets and so forth); putting two slashes (I forget whether they were forward or backward) between the sets of brackets will make the stem directions face different ways.

=Formatting=
==I want an indent==
* Comment out or change the value for the line (line 8) that says ''indent = 0.0''
==There's two much space between systems (lines)==
* Uncomment the following lines:
** %between-system-space = 0.1 \mm (line 10)
** %between-system-padding = #1 (line 11)

==I want piano introduction marks==
* This is a tough one, actually; I'm not sure what to tell you other than to try to use text markup, changing the font, and some funky font characters (you'll need to keep the UTF-8 encoding for that).  I've been trying to convince them to add this feature.

==How do I get a tempo mark followed by a range, rather than a set number?==
* Uncomment and edit line 44.  This will not change the midi tempo.

==Foreign Characters==
* You need to use UTF-8 encoding for the foreign characters to show up.  ANSI won't cut it anymore (it worked for ANSI characters back in version 2.4.6).  SciTE is a text editor that handles this encoding.  Windows notepad (for Windows 2000 and higher) also does, though it's a rather featureless editor.

==I want it to say 4/4 instead of having the symbol==
* Uncomment line 53.

=Other=
* Look at what the template has to offer and experiment.
* Take a look at the source for some of the hymns on this site.
* Read the LilyPond Documentation, tutorials, and such.

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