Staff/voice

Features that are useful in the given staff/voice are presented here.

Count beats in selection

LilyTool will count and show the beat number in the selected text. For example, if you select six measures, when each one is 4/4, the status bar will show: 'Beats: 6/1'.

Insert repeat

Repeat syntax can be quite difficult to remember. This dialog helps you setting up repeats. If you click the Help button, you can read about the kinds of repeat in the LilyPond manual.

Ottava brackets

This command helps you setting up ottava brackets. You can set the octavation (1 is 8va, -1 is 8va bassa, 2 is 15ma), and the (optional) custom text for the octavation markup.

LilyTool will automatically put the necessary settings before and after the selected notes.

Center rests

In vocal music rests are often merged when occuring in the same time in two voices on the same staff.

Text spanner

This command will put a text spanner beginning at the starting note of the selection and ending at the last note of the selection. If you don't select anything you'll have to manually put the necessary \startTextSpan and \stopTextSpan commands.