Orm Finnendahl-3 wrote: > > Hi, > > in the example below, I'm trying to create a Voice context on the fly > and add lyrics to it. It doesn't seem to do what I would expect. > > The attached png shows my output (lilypond 2.13.43 on Linux). > > My questions: > > 1. Why are the b and a eigth notes rendered simultaneously with the c > on the downbeat of bar 2 and not succesively on the last beat of > bar 1? > > 2. Why are the lyrics printed below the PianoStaff despite the > "\accepts lyrics"? > > I suspect the latter has to do with the nested << >> brackets, as > lyrics get printed between the staff lines if I do it without the > nested brackets. In the piece I'm writing it would make things much > clearer and easier, if I could create new contexts at different parts > of the piece on the fly and attach individual lyrics to each of them. > you don't need to specify \accepts Lyrics !
if you place the Lyrics between the upper and lower staff you'll get what you want: \new PianoStaff % \with { \accepts Lyrics } << \new Staff = upper { \clef G \relative c' { c8 d \new Voice = "one" { e8 [ f g a ] } b8 a g f e d c } } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "one" { ba da di do } \new Staff = lower { … } >> } hth Eluze -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/voice-context-on-the-fly-and-lyrics-tp31614104p31614719.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user