Hi Folks. I thank you all for your continued help. Thomas Morley-2 wrote > don't put \new Lyrics _into_ the Staff.
This one line showed me the essence of my error, so I am able to work from there. Now that I look at it, it does look like a newbie error, but I just wasn't seeing it before. Eluze wrote: > I'm not sure, but I guess Garrett wants the lyrics in a sequential line What I'm trying to deal with is the fact that the number of lines in the verses and the number of lines in the chorus very often do not match. See for example the attached image of where the verses and chorus meet in a particularly well-known hymn:
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You see that the chorus line there is not aligned with any of the verse lines, but rather both sides are centered according to the number of lines in their own section. I'm imagining some way to explicitly end a lyric context so that it won't the affect the spacing of a subsequent context when on the same line. I'm really just trying to figure out what is the best way to handle the verse/chorus transition. I expect I am going to encounter this kind of thing often since a lot of what I do are hymns. My current project is just a simple arrangement of Silver Bells for a Christmas event later this year, and I've used one of the methods suggested here (the \set associatedVoice) and some heavy-handed forcing of lyric order. The current solution is not too bad. I'll send my file in case any one wants to look at it to see if you can think of a better way (but only if you want to). Please excuse the fact that my music training is not in composition :(
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