Please forgive the long-winded post. This is my first time. I'm green as grass at this. (Also, my local disk is about maxed out, so I'm afraid to upgrade versions.)
I've been trying to engrave a few hymns for our congregation for members to learn melodies and parts (I'm new to this platform, coming from NoteWorthy). I got as far as setting the music (image attached), but I can't seem to get the lyrics to show up between the staves, as is typical for a hymnbook. The only other LilyPond hymnbook I've seen has source code that is out of my depth with what appears to be object-oriented programming.
I have a snippet below showing how the score and staves are organized and another showing one voice (the Alto line) set in that score. I initially started out using a piano template and changing the StaffPiano to StaffGroup. It hasn't helped. Also, the template does not lend itself to use of the lyric and context commands that I found in the Learning Manual. Whenever I try to combine these coding styles, I get lyrics on top, on bottom, or none and just an empty staff extension.
Could somebody who better understands how Lyricmode, \addlyrics, \new Lyrics, and Voice objects, etc. work show me where to insert the call command to place the lyrics where I want them and also which command to use to write them out?
Version = 2.18.2, Frescobaldi 3.1.1
Organization of voices and staves into score:
Notes sung by Alto (start of code block, first few notes, last few notes, end of block):
Thank you,
Stephen
