Re: Lyrics problem ... Bug? Feature? ???

[Mats Bengtsson]

Anthony Youngman wrote:

> I've changed my approach - I felt all along that the rests were what was
> screwing things up. (Which means, I think, that if I copy your example
> exactly as you've given it, it'll be just as big a mess as before. But
> I'll try your approach in a minute - I'm still going to send this email
> because I do think there's something fundamentally wrong under this
> somewhere...)
>
> Unfortunately, I've just swapped one error for another. I've redefined
> pennsylvania as 
>
> pennsylvania = { r2_\markup{ shout }
>         { \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross f8. f16 f8. f16 f4 f f8.
> f16 }
>         \addlyrics { Penn syl van ia six five thous and }
>         r4 }
>
> which has had several effects. I no longer need to reset the notehead
> style. 
What you said here made me completely confused, so I had to take a look at
the implementation and learned something new. The construct
music_expression \addlyrics lyrics
will create a new Voice context for the music_expression.

> lilypond no longer complains about getting its timing in a twist.
> It is now complaining about trying to put noteheads and stems on a rest
> (the r4 - and yes I did try reverting the notehead style - no effect
> whatsoever). And because I've got two consecutive occurrences on the
> same line, it's making the two lots of text avoid each other, which
> looks daft.
The timing gets lost already at the end of the prima volta. I have no idea
on what's going on here. Replacing
music_expression \addlyrics lyrics
by
\new Voice music_expression
in your example works well, so there's something more going on here that
I don't understand fully.

Still, my impression is that \addlyrics mainly was implemented to support
extremely simple situations where your score in principle only has a melody
and one or more lines of lyrics. What makes your example extra complicated
is that you want to insert the same construct at a number of places in the
score.

In a way, maybe the simplest solution for you is to do
pennsylvania = { r2_\markup{ shout }
 <<
   \new Voice { \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross f8. f16 f8. f16 f4 
f f8. f16 }
   \context Lyrics = pennsylvanialyrics \lyricmode{ Penn8. syl16 van8. 
ia16 six4 five4 thous8. and16 }
 >>
 r4 }
Unfortunately, it means that you have to specify the durations of the 
syllables
explicictly. Also,  the second set of lyrics gets  typeset one line too 
low. I will
write a separate bug report about that issue.

> Graham - I'll have to write something for the docs (I'm working from
> 2.8.0) because there appears to be no examples at all about how to embed
> a lyric fragment in a larger piece. 
Sure there is! In the latest manual for version 2.9, you can find two 
examples
in section "7.3.7.2 Divisi lyrics" and I know that Eduardo has sent a draft
of even more documentation to Graham, with related information.


   /Mats