Okay, that makes some amount of sense (but not much). But why doesn't it give a warning or anything? And I still don't know why extenders need an associated voice in the first place.
On 02/16/18 10:49, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > Hi, > > As soon as associatedVoice has been set to /anything/, LilyPond will pick > the next best voice it can find. > > The actual value assigned to associatedVoice is only important if there are > multiple voices present to choose from. > Let me illustrate that with an amended example taken from the documentation: > > ~~~ > \version "2.18.2" > > \score { > << > \new Staff << > \new Voice = "melodyOne" { > \relative { > \voiceOne > a'4 a a a > \repeat volta 2 { b4 b b b( | c b a b) } > } > } > \new Voice = "melodyTwo" { > \relative { > \voiceTwo > a'4 a a a > \repeat volta 2 { b4 b b b( | c b2.) } > } > } > >> > \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melodyOne" { > Not re -- peat -- ed. > << > { The first time words. __ } > \new Lyrics { > \set associatedVoice = "bogus" > Sec -- ond time words. __ > } > \new Lyrics { > \set associatedVoice = "melodyTwo" > The third time words. __ > } > >> > } > >> > } > > As you can see, the "Second time words" align with melodyOne (the first to > come in case of bogus assignment), but "The third time words" align with > melodyTwo. > > HTH, > Torsten > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user