On Sunday 27 August 2006 07:26, Graham Percival wrote: > Ted Walther wrote: > > The documentation of lyrics has got me befuddled on the notion of > > contexts, as I haven't seen anywhere it clearly says what I can do in > > lyricsmode that I can't do in lyricsto, although the documentation does > > state that there is a difference. Perhaps the complete read-through of > > the manual will clear it up. > > If you figure it out, let me know. I don't use vocal music, so I've > barely touched that section. I'm happy for corrections, though.
In short: \lyricmode is just a marker that says "the following input characters should be interpreted as lyrics, rather than notes". \lyricsto is a function, which aligns lyrics to notes. So in \lyricsto you need a voice to align lyrics to, while in \lyricmode you need to specify the duration of each syllable manually. So: You always want to use lyricsto, but if you want to store a line of lyrics in a variable, use lyricmode and then use lyricsto to align that variable to music. -- Erik _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
