2016-03-18 4:57 GMT+01:00 Hwaen Ch'uqi <hwaench...@gmail.com>: > Greetings, > > Yes, this is perfect! I am sheepish to admit that I do not quite > understand the solution. For example, if I were to leave out the first > measure in the code I submitted and then compiled, there appears a > large gap between the penultimate and the final word of the spoken > dialogue? Could you enlighten me as to this? Thank you again for your > solution! > > Hwaen Ch'uqi
I can't reproduce the problem with the gap, could you post the code? For the other things: There are two problems: -------------------- (1) Creating new contexts vs continuing them. -------------------- Your code created two _new_ Lyric-contexts. LilyPond sorts newly created contexts below the already existing ones, so the Lyrics were note aligned. Regard this small example: << \new Voice = "one" { c''1 << r1 \new Lyrics = "lyr2" \with { \override LyricText.color = #red } \lyricmode { barbarbarbarbar } >> d'' } \new Lyrics = "lyr1" \lyricsto "one" { foo buzz } >> \new Lyrics = "lyr2" is _not_ a continuation of \new Lyrics = "lyr1" (and thus the context-modification via \with { ... } works) Naming them "lyr1/2" is only for better understanding, you can delete the names, without changing what works or not. Compare with: << \new Voice = "one" { c''1 << r1 \context Lyrics = "lyr1" \with { \override LyricText.color = #red } \lyricmode { barbarbarbarbar } >> d'' } \new Lyrics = "lyr1" \lyricsto "one" { foo buzz } >> \context Lyrics = "lyr1" _is_ a continuation of \new Lyrics = "lyr1" and the lyrics _are_ aligned. You can delete the naming as well, but _if_ you use names they should be the same! n.b. the context-modification via does _not_ work!! -------------------- (2) context-modifications If you continue a context via \context you obviously can't use \with { ... } to insert there context-modifications like overrides. You need to do \override and \revert in the music-expression. << \new Voice = "one" { c''1 << r1 \context Lyrics = "lyr" %% doesn't work: \with { \override LyricText.color = #red } \lyricmode { \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT barbarbarbarbar \revert LyricText.self-alignment-X } >> d'' } \new Lyrics = "lyr" %% works: \with { \override LyricText.color = #cyan } \lyricsto "one" { foo buzz } >> Hope that helps a bit, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user