I had a similar problem when managing different spread of text in different stanzas of a song. Maybe the following solution (which does not produce the correct midi-output!) is appropriate for you? - for me it looks like a bit of cheating, but it seems to work.
\version "2.19.22" verseOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1." This is the first al -- ter -- na -- tive } verseTwo = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "2." And this is the se -- cond one } melodyOne = \relative c'' { c4 d e f f e d c } melodyTwo = \relative c'' { %make voice effectively invisible \override Slur.transparent = ##t \override Stem.transparent = ##t \override Dots.transparent = ##t \override Beam.transparent = ##t \override NoteHead.transparent = ##t \voiceTwo r4 d e f f e d c } \score { \new Staff << \new Voice = "first" { \repeat volta 2 { \melodyOne } } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "first" { \verseOne } \new Voice = "second" { \voiceTwo \melodyTwo } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "second" { \verseTwo } >> } Instead of manually overriding the visibility of the notes you can use \hideNotes after the rest in verseTwo, too. Hope that helps, Jonathan On 02/13/2016 02:35 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > BB <bb-543...@telecolumbus.net> writes: > >> I do NOT want to copy/paste or repaet the notes. My problem is, that >> only the first note is different. With using repeat volta usually just >> the "tail" of a sequence of notes is different and not all with the >> exception of the first. > Put in both notes in different voices and add texts {1.} and {2.}. >
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