Re: [UPDATED] Help with \lyricsto and polyphony, and reusing lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

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Joshua Kwan wrote:
> [ Note: I sent an earlier message which I'm not sure made it because I 
> was not yet subscribed to the list, so if you're seeing this for the 
> second time I apologize. I've updated some stuff in the message since I 
> upgraded Lilypond in the meantime to 2.4.2. The problem remains in the 
> new version too, and my hack around it no longer works. ]
>
> Hello fellow Lilypond users,
>
> I'm encountering a problem giving lyrics to polyphonic voices.
>
> The soprano line for a song I'm scoring contains:
>
>     << { d4 bf c2 d4 bf c } \\
>     { bf4 f f2 bf4 f f } >>
>     r4
>     << { f' bf, c f, f' } \\
>     { d f, bf d, d' } >>
>
> When I add lyrics, using
>
>         \context Lyrics {
>             \lyricsto "soprano" \upperlyrics
>         }
>
> The lyrics stop where the polyphony starts. I have been told that this
> is because each polyphonic voice represents a different, anonymous
> voice, and therefore is not processed by \lyricsto at all.
>
> I was able to hack around this in 2.2.x only by doing this:
>
>         \addlyrics
>         \context Voice = "soprano" {
>             \clef treble
>             \soprano
>         }
>         \context Lyrics ="lsoprano" {
>             \upperlyrics
>         }
>
> But that chokes Lilypond 2.4.x.
>
> How can I tell Lilypond that (especially because each voice has the
> exact same rhythm) the polyphonic voices should be treated as one when
> processing lyrics?
>
> Otherwise, what is the best way to name each subvoice? It doesn't make
> intuitive sense to have to name each one.
>
> Also, I noticed that if I do this in 2.4.x:
>
>         \context Lyrics = "lsoprano" {
>             \lyricsto "soprano" \upperlyrics
>         }
>
>         \context Lyrics = "lalto" {
>             \lyricsto "alto" \upperlyrics
>         }
>
> that is, if the lyrics are the same for soprano and alto voices,
> and I reuse \upperlyrics twice, Lilypond junks all of the lyric
> events on the alto voice. Copying \upperlyrics into identical 
> \sopranolyrics and \altolyrics works.
>
> The full .ly file is here (this works with 2.2 and is basically what I 
> want it to continue looking like in 2.4):
> http://triplehelix.org/~joshk/servants-chorus-1.ly
>
> This one works with 2.4, but the lyrics get lost when the soprano voice 
> breaks into polyphony:
> http://triplehelix.org/~joshk/servants-chorus-1.snapshot.ly
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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