On Sat 13 Feb 2016 at 15:25:22 (+0100), Jonathan Scholbach wrote: > 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.
or even the attached... Cheers, David.
verseOne = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1." This is the first al -- ter -- na -- tive } verseTwo = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "2." \markup { \musicglyph #"rests.2" } And this is the se -- cond one } melodyOne = \relative c'' { c4 d e f f e d c } \score { \new Staff << \new Voice { \repeat volta 2 { \melodyOne } } \addlyrics { \verseOne } \addlyrics { \verseTwo } >> }
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