Re: Three small variations on lyrics?

[Arjan Bos]

Mats,

The example is similar, but for me (being a newbie in LilyPond) not 
similar enough. I looked at the example and tried to figure out what 
was going on in there. I adapted my code, but everything I tried 
somehow got the tree stanzas in the beginning. I wanted them to start 
on the 14 bar, lasting two bars and then 8 bars again with a single 
line of lyrics.
 Is there a way to do this?

And, perhaps more important, is there a document that explains why it 
all works the way it does? The tutorial is great for getting up to 
speed very quick, but it doesn't tell me why things are the way they 
are. For example, the satbSample.ly (sp?) is great, but it took me many 
test runs to find out that the order in which Lyrics and Notes are 
stated matters. And still I don't know when to use a context, and why 
there are things like { s1 } in there.

Arjan

> One similar example is provided in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-10/msg00387.html
>
>    /Mats
>
>
> Arjan Bos wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > Since last weekend I started on LilyPond 2.4. I'm a newbie to 
> > LilyPond, so this might just be a question of reading the fine 
> > manual.
> > I have a lyric that goes as follows:
> > "Nie -- mand is hier 1. die mij de han -- den reikt.  Nooit een dag 
> > in je leven"
> >                   2.      die mij troost -- en wil.
> >                   3. die mij een toe-komst geeft.
> > So my question is:
> > How do I have multiple stanzas as part of the lyrics, where the first 
> > part is fixed, then there is a part with three stanzas and finally 
> > another fixed part?
> > ---
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