Re: question about putting music expressions in sequence

[Peter Selinger]

Dear David, Phil, and Thomas,

thanks for your quick replies! I'm surprised that as a newbie, I was
able to find a bug in less than 24 hours of using Lilypond. But it's
fortunate that it has already been fixed!

I had double-checked that 2.18.2 is the most current version by
checking that it is the version described in the documentation:
http://www.lilypond.org/website/manuals.html

But I had forgotten that there is also an "unstable" release. 

Great, thanks again for your help! I'll report back in case I run into
any more problems. -- Peter

David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > It looks to me that you have posted the same example twice, both of
> > which work as planned, and neither of which provides the output you've
> > attached. Please check.
> 
> Well, let's see:
> 
> First version:
> 
> >>      \new Lyrics = "lyrics" \lyricmode { Words to first verse }
> [...]
> >>      \context Lyrics = "lyrics" \lyricmode { Words to next verse }
> 
> Second version:
> 
> >>      \new Lyrics = "lyrics" \lyricsto "up" { Words to first verse }
> [...]
> >>      \context Lyrics = "lyrics" \lyricsto "up" { Words to next verse }
> 
> Looks different to me.  Also, either version:
> 
> >> \version "2.18.2"
> 
> And indeed, version 2.18.2 falls flat rather uglily on the second
> version while current LilyPond versions have no problem with it.
> 
> This is issue 2010
> <URL:https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2010>, fixed in
> version 2.19.16 but likely not in a manner where this example would
> work.  I suspect this example would require the fix from issue 4419
> <URL:https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4419> in order
> not to be stopped short, meaning a version of LilyPond of 2.19.23 or
> later.
> 
> >> Is there a way to make this work? (I realize that I could put all the
> >> information into variables, and rearrange the expression to be
> >> grouped by voice rather than verse. However, I am looking for a way
> >> to make the above grouping work).
> 
> Upgrade.  The respective fixes are in C++ code so there is no way you
> can just patch up some parts of LilyPond.
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup
>