Re: How to enter small fragments of alternative lyrics for a voice?

[Erik Sandberg]

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23.18, Michael Kallas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to enter a collection of SATB pieces in which I've
> encountered a problem: At certain positions, I have 2 voices going
> tra- la- la- la- la- la- la,
> but the other two go:
> tra- la- la- la- la- la- (rest) tra- la- la
> For the rest of the piece, the lyrics are identical, so I don't want to
> draw two lines of identical lyrics.
> Is it possible to have "blanks" in lyrics which become matched to notes?
> I didn't find any way to do this in the manual but must admit that I'm
> really new to lilypond.
> I'm using version 2.2.6 on Debian unstable, if that matters.

Have you tried using \skip within lyrics? like { la la la \skip 4 tra la la }

erik