Re: Unexpected extra measure at end

[Mats Bengtsson]

A Voice context in LilyPond can only contain notes, not lyrics.
I know that this seems unintuitive to some people, but that's the
way it is designed. Also, if you several pieces of music or whatever
within a pair of curly braces {...} in a LilyPond file, it means
"typeset these pieces of music in a sequence after eachother".
If you want several things to happen simultanously, they have to
be included in a <<...>>. So, you instructed LilyPond to insert an
empty bar after the end of the \tenMusic, and so it did.

   /Mats

Arjan Bos wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> When creating a score for the choir I'm in, I found out that Lilypond 
> generates an extra measure at the end when the lyrics are defined within 
> the voice. When they are just outside the closing `}' of the voice, the 
> resulting pdf looks the same, except the empty bar at the end has gone.
> Is this a bug?
>
> This is the (almost) smallest example I could come up with that still 
> has the problem.
>
>
> %% -- sniplet begins here
> \version "2.4.2"
>
> tenMusic = \notemode  { \relative c' { c4 c c c } }
> tenText  = \lyricmode { E -- tra bar. Why? }
>
> \score {
>   \context ChoirStaff {
>     <<
>       \context Staff = "ten" {
>     \context Voice = "tenors" { \tenMusic }
>     %% When put here, the lyrics generate an extra measure at the
>     %% end. If they are outside the Voice brackets, it doesn't.
>     \context Lyrics = tenorsA { s1 }
>       }
>       \context Lyrics = tenorsA \lyricsto tenors { \tenText  }
>     >>
>   }
> }
>
> %% --- sniplet ends here
>
> TIA,
>
> Arjan
>
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