Re: Selective ambitus in staff context SOLUTION

[aftertheflood]

Hi everybody,

a search for „CueVoice“ in the LilyPond directory lead me to the option 
NoteHead.ignore-ambitus which does exactly what I need:

%%%
\version "2.25.25"

vocStaffMusic = \relative {
  c'2 d

% don’t assign lyrics to this, but include it in ambitus
  \new Voice {
  e4^"hum melody" f g a
  }

% exclude this from ambitus calculation
  \new Voice \with {
    \override NoteHead.ignore-ambitus = ##t
 } {
  e'4^"flute" f g,,^"horn" a
  }

% back to vocals with lyrics and ambitus
  c2 d4 e
}

vocLyrics = \lyricmode {
  Ly -- rics
  more ly -- rics
}

\score { <<
  \new Staff \with { \consists Ambitus_engraver } {
    \new Voice = "vocWithLyrics" { \vocStaffMusic }
  }
  \new Lyrics \lyricsto "vocWithLyrics" { \vocLyrics } >> }
%%%

All the best,
Oliver