Re: Vertical alignment of lyrics to multiple voices

[Mats Bengtsson]

Every time you do \new Lyrics, you get a new Lyrics context, which is
placed on a separate line. Just include all your lyrics sections into 
one and
the same Lyrics context if you want them vertically aligned, i.e. 
replace your
current \score block with
\score {
   <<

  
   \new Staff = "whole" {\new Voice ="a" {\melodya} \new Voice="b" 
{\melodyb} \new Voice="c" {\melodyc} \new Voice="d" {\melodyd}}
                        

   \new Lyrics <<
   \lyricsto "a"   \texta 
   \lyricsto "b"   \textb
   \lyricsto "c"   \textc
   \lyricsto "d"   \textd
   >>
  
    >>
    \layout { }

}

  /Mats

Jack Cooper wrote:
> Happy new year!
>
> I have been navigating the lilypond world for the past six months and have
> been primarily exploring lilypond as a tool for creating leadsheets 
> and songbooks.
>
> My main interest is figuring out how to create an efficient template
> for creating a leadsheet (or "fakebook" style sheet) for all types of 
> modern
> guitar-vocal based songs.
>
> I am wrestling with the formatting for lyrics.  I am aiming for a 
> modular approach
> to constructing lilypond input so that I can format sheets for a wide 
> variety of
> song styles.  The main problem I am having is the vertical alignment 
> of lyrics
> assigned to one or more voice contexts.  I will start off with a small 
> example
> to exemplify the problem.  In the following example, I am printing off 
> the melody
> and lyrics to "Frere Jacques".  I creating separated voice contexts 
> for each
> "section" of the song, and am assigning lyrics to each section.  The 
> resulting
> output properly assigns the correct lyric to the correct voice, but the
> different lyrics are rendered on the same vertical line- each successive
> lyric is placed lower than the one preceding it.
>
> How do I change this so that each lyric snippet is vertically 
> aligned?  All my
> keyword searcing through the archives and manual hasn't come up with
> anything that seems to work (I've tried overriding the 
> minimum-Y-extent and
> Y-offset of the lyric context with no discernable change).
>
> Any suggestions welcomed!
>
> Thanks,
>
>   Jack
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> code snippet:
>
>  \version "2.8"
>  \include "english.ly"
>
>
> melodya =   {
>      \clef treble
>      \key c \major
>      \time 4/4
>      c'4 d'4 e'4 c'4 | c'4 d'4 e'4 c'4 |
>
> }
>
> melodyb = {
>      e'4 f'4 g'2 | e'4 f'4 g'2 |
> }
>
> melodyc = {
> g'8 a'8 g'8 f'8 e'4 c'4 | g'8 a'8 g'8 f'8 e'4 c'4 |
> }
>
> melodyd ={ c'4 g4 c'2 | c'4 g4 c'2 \bar"||"}
>
>  
>
> melody = {\new Voice = "a" {\melodya} \new Voice = "b" {\melodyb} \new 
> Voice = "c" {\melodyc} \new Voice = "d" {\melodyd}}
>  
> texta =  \lyricmode  {
> Fre -- re  Jacqu -- es,
> Fre -- re  Jacqu -- es,
>
> }
>
> textb =  \lyricmode  {
> Dor -- mez Vous?
> Dor -- mez vous?
>
> }
>
> textc =  \lyricmode  {
> Sonn -- ez les ma -- tin -- es,
> Sonn -- ez les ma -- tin -- es,
>
> }
>
> textd =  \lyricmode  {
> Din, din don!
> Din, din don!
>
> }
>
>  \score {
>     <<
>  
>     
>     \new Voice = "whole" {\new Voice ="a" {\melodya} \new Voice="b" 
> {\melodyb} \new Voice="c" {\melodyc} \new Voice="d" {\melodyd}}
>                           
>
>     \new Lyrics    \lyricsto "a"   \texta
>     \new Lyrics    \lyricsto "b"   \textb
>     \new Lyrics    \lyricsto "c"   \textc
>     \new Lyrics    \lyricsto "d"   \textd
>     
>      >>
>      \layout { }
>
> }
>
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