Re: also, lyric help

[Trevor Daniels]

James, you wrote Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:26 PM

> Of course I had to finish engraving a piece of music where I had 
> to  have 22 lyrics contexts because I couldn't figure a neat way 
> of  keeping the proper voice contexts alive in order to figure out 
> a way  to actually keep the voice contexts alive. It was far 
> simpler than I  thought.
> \version "2.12.2"
> dontDie = {
>    <<
>       \context Voice = AAA { s1*5}
>       \context Voice = BBB { s1*5}
>    >>
> }
> music = \transpose c c' {
>    \context Voice = AAA {
>       \voiceOneStyle
>       c4 d e f
>    }
>    \context Voice = BBB {
>       \voiceTwoStyle
>       g a b c
>    }
>    \context Voice = AAA { c1 }
>    \context Voice = BBB { c1 }
>    \context Voice = AAA { c1 }
> }
>
> \score {
>    \new Staff <<
>       \dontDie
>       \music
>    >>
> }

That's a neater way of doing it.  Perhaps I'll
adopt this as the example that is going in the
docs.

Thanks

Trevor