I've done simple songs OK. Now I'm struggling to understand how lyrics relate to voices and staves in a more complex setup: a through-composed song with several stanzas, some with their own music, but some with repeated music.
Example below. The lyrics for the last section are engraved aligned with the second stanza for the repeated section. The lyrics are going to get lower and lower down if there are more repeated sections. I know that I can avoid it by embedding one Voice inside another, as in \new Voice = "main" \relative c' { c d \new Voice = "inner" \relative c' { e f } g a } But this seems a bit unnatural compared with the clearer setup in the example below. And would get more complicated if there were several repeated sections. Using the simple-minded setup below, can I make the stanza 4 lyric align with stanzas 1 and 2? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \version "2.11.47" FirstLyrics = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1." hum } SecondLyrics= \lyricmode { \set stanza = "2." hey hi } ThirdLyrics = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "3." non -- ny } FourthLyrics = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "4." no } %%%%%%%% sectionOneMusic = \relative c'' { g2 ( aes )} sectionTwoMusic = \relative c'' { \repeat volta 2 {a2 bes } } sectionThreeMusic = \relative c'' { c } \score{ << \new Staff = "upperStaff" { \new Voice = "firstMusic" {\sectionOneMusic } \new Voice = "secondMusic" {\sectionTwoMusic } \new Voice = "thirdMusic" {\sectionThreeMusic } } \new Lyrics \lyricsto firstMusic \FirstLyrics \new Lyrics \lyricsto secondMusic \SecondLyrics \new Lyrics \lyricsto secondMusic \ThirdLyrics \new Lyrics \lyricsto thirdMusic \FourthLyrics >> } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/yrics-on-one-line-with-some-repeated-sections-tp18429814p18429814.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user