Re: Multiple notes over same lyric

[Bill Mooney]

Greetings
You wrote...
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I'm trying to put multiple notes *over* the same lyric. What I mean can 
be seen in this PDF: http://www.npm.org/Chants/assets/Gloria.pdf

The word earth for example has two notes over the text itself. A few 
more melismatic examples on page 2 also. When I try to accomplish this, 
it seems that the second note gets pushed right till it's after the end 
of the text, ending up with a long slur before the remaining notes are 
close together.
(By the way I'm mimicking the style in the PDF to some extent: no stems, 
no barlines, cadenzaOff, a few old markings via gregorian.ly).

I have tried many of the examples from the lilypond manuals (different 
lyric entry modes, associated voices, using slurs, manual lyric 
durations, etc.) with no luck. Am I missing something simple here? Any 
ideas?
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This might help - once you include stem removers and things.
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Music = \relative c'
{
c4 c c c c c c c c c c( b) c c c c c d( e) e
}

Words = \lyricmode {
Glor -- y to God in the high -- est and  on earth peace to peo -- ple of 
good will.
}
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note the positioning of the ( and ) corresponding with the relevant 
melismas in the text
Hope this helps,
Regards
Bill