Alexander Kobel <a-ko...@a-kobel.de> writes:
> On 2016-11-02 11:20, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Alexander Kobel <a-ko...@a-kobel.de> writes:
>>
>>> I mostly set vocal music - typically clean SATB with exactly four
>>> voices on either two or four staves, but sometimes a voice splits to
>>> two or three in between. In that case, I'll almost always have a
>>> four-staves situation. This screams for << \\ >> or << \\ \\ >>.
>>>
>>> However, I attach lyrics to the voices, and that's why I give them
>>> sensible names - namely, "sop" (or "soprano"), "alt", etc. The
>>> implicit voice naming with << \\ >> means that I have to split my
>>> lyrics to separate context, or I'll have to rename the voices inside
>>> << \\ >>.
>>
>> No, it just means that your lyrics have to follow the staff rather than
>> a single voice unless your lyrics split as well.
>>
>> Can't find the issue number where this was made to work. Still has
>> problems with overlapping melismata if I remember correctly, so maybe
>> that's why it's not advertised prominently.
>
> Hum. You mean if I name the staff instead of the voices, I can create
> lyrics that follow all voices that are active on this staff?
> Doesn't seem to work, but I might not have the right syntax.
It's a 2.19 thing.
> By the way, your reply to Werner shows pretty much what I actually
> would consider useful: :-)
>
>> [...]
>> The problem I see right away with that is that it is useful. How is
>> that a problem?
>>
>> <<
>> \new Voice = "soprano" {
>> ...
>> \voices 1,soprano << ... \\ ... >>
>> ...
>> }
>> \lyricsto "soprano" { ... }
>> >>
>>
>> Lo and behold, we have a solution for an old problem.
>> [...]
That one can actually be done sort-of right away. It would likely
cement the "2"/\voiceTwo/2nd item relation however. Which is sort of
the opposite of the proposal I started this discussion with.
--
David Kastrup
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