Thanks everyone! It took me several hours to work out how to get from the examples David directed me to in the Docs to a MWE that had the lyrics where I wanted them to be to using that structure into my existing score, but I did do it.
Guy Stalnaker jimmyg...@gmail.com On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 5:51 PM Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote: > Guy, > > > > When you want help on the list, the best thing to do is to set up a > compilable tiny example: http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html > > > > If you do that, then we can just make the needed changes. > > > > Pseudocode like you wrote in your email is hard to give good answers about. > > > > But I’ll show you a pseudocode example for your pseudocode example. You > need some special music to be put into NullVoice contexts to space the > lyrics. They won’t show up in the staffs, but the lyrics will be aligned > to them. > > > > %% CODE > > \new ChoirStaff << > > \new Staff = “upper” > > \new Voice = "soprano" { S } > > \new Voice = "alto" { A } > > \new NullVoice = “mainlyrics” { M } % M needs only the > rhythms, pitches don’t matter – should > > > % have the rhythms only for the main voices. > > \new NullVoice = “soplyrics” {SL} % Mostly s or \skip; > rhythms at some pitch whenever special soprano words are present > > >> > > \new Lyrics \with { AlignAboveContext = “upper”} \lyricsto > “soplyrics” \sopSpecial > > \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mainlyrics" \verseOne > > \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mainlyrics" \verseTwo > > \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mainlyrics" \verseThree > > \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mainlyrics" \verseFour > > << > > \new Staff > > \new Voice = "tenor" { T } > > \new Voice = "bass" { B } > > >> > > >> > > %% CODE > > > > > > I could share with you some examples of this, but they aren’t anywhere > close to tiny examples,so I don’t want to post them to the list. > > > > HTH, > > > > Carl > > > > >
