Responding to my own post, because I figured it out, and I hate it when I search mail archives only to find a question sans answer:
Quoth Don Blaheta: > I'm having a hard time getting LilyPond to do just what I want here. > ... I have a song whose rhythm varies slightly to accommodate the > lyrics in a second verse. > > [... various failed attempts ...] > For my third attempt, I tried to play with the polyphony features, ... > when I go ahead and actually name the contexts, the layout becomes > tractable again, and the lyrics are in the right place, but we're back > to clashing notecolumns and simply overprinting the other parts. The key thing I missed here was that I invoked the polyphony stuff using << and >> but I never called \voiceOne for the main melody and \voiceTwo (for downward stems) or \voiceThree (for upward stems) for the alternate. So something like << { a2 b2 } \\ { a4 b4 b b } >> will generate error messages and overprint; but << { \voiceOne a2 b2 } \\ { \voiceThree a4 b4 b b } >> will resolve the collisions appropriately. (See below for a more complete example.) > Since I originally wanted the second part to have smaller note > heads anyway, I thought maybe I'd just A) make them smaller and B) > manually perturb the note heads. But while I can use \set fontSize to > solve the first problem, I haven't yet figured out what to poke to make > the note head and stem all move together. (I guess I could separately > add the same offset to NoteHead and Stem, but that seems unsatisfactory.) This may still be a problem if you want e.g. an a4 and an a8 to print separate noteheads, and the solution is to override the force-hshift of the whole NoteColumn. A reduction of the whole solution, with alternate rhythm, smaller notes, and offset noteheads, looks like this: << \context Voice = "verse" { \voiceOne c4 c8 c % etc... the "normal" music } \context Voice = "altverse" { \set fontSize = #-3 \voiceTwo s1 | s1 | ef4 ef2. | %only set the different notes, skip the rest s4*3 \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1.1 f8 f8 | %makes the first eighth note offset } >> Then you can use the associatedVerse trick described in the manual in order to line lyrics up with the altverse notes instead. Hope someone finds this helpful.... -- -=-Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]<http://www.blahedo.org/>-=- "Don't tell ME that I don't understand the difference between special and general relativity, you uneducated turd-boy. I'll distort your timespace continuum into next WEEK." --Eva Schillace _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user