Re: Hello! Complicated newbie questions!

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 04 November 2005 23.12, Markian Hlynka wrote:
> 7. Finally (for now), I'm having trouble aligning lyrics to music. I
> have this:
> mainvoice = \relative c
> {
>      \key a \minor
>
>      \repeat volta 2
>      {
>          \partial 8*3
>          e8 a8.  [ b16] c2~c8 b16 a gis8. a16 b2 r8
>      }
> }
>
> mainwords = \lyricmode{ one -- two -- three -- four five six }
>
> So, the end of sylable four should align with c2~c8.. It does, but
> "five" is also under the c2, not under the subsequent b16 where it
> belongs. I've tried adding _ and __ and even _ __, but there doesn't
> seem to be any effect. Am I doing something wrong? Same problem in
> English and Cyrillic.

Please re-read the sections about lyrics carefully. You probably want to use 
\lyricsto or \addlyrics.

-- 
Erik