Because stanza numbers only appear on the first line. Using instrumentName to label verse numbers provides automatic numbering on every line. It wasn't my idea, actually, credit for that goes to Thomas Morley a few issues ago in Vol 163:issue 95. It works quite well.

On 7/1/2016 1:30 PM, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote:
Why not use StanzaNumbers instead of instrumentName to label verse numbers?


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