Re: lyric extenders in 2.11

[James E. Bailey]

I use lyrics quite a bit, and I don't really understand what you mean.  
Can you provide a short (1 measure) example that demonstrates what  
you're talking about?
On 09.09.2008, at 17:57, Monk Panteleimon wrote:

> Hello. I am using 2.11.57. I've noticed that LyricExtenders
> don't work with \lyricmode anymore unless you explicitly set the  
> associatedVoice in the lyrics context. It used to automatically take  
> the highest voice in the top staff. Is this an intentional change or  
> a bug?
> Or an intermediate step toward a \lyricmode that finds the longest  
> melisma from among the voices and acts accordingly (hint, hint)?
>
> \lyricmode will accept the name of a Staff context as the  
> associatedVoice but \lyricsto won't. This means that if you have a  
> piece where each staff has only one voice in it, you must either use  
> \lyricmode or, if you want \lyricsto, you must use an otherwise  
> superfluous nested a Voice context.
>
> If this was an intentional change, I'll be naming a lot of staves  
> and sticking in a lot \set associatedVoice thingies. So it's only  
> temporary, right?
>
> [8^)>
>
> Thanks for lilypond.
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