Again, much thanks. I would not have known this without your post. The
Documentation page you reference clearly shows use of the "older" type
of temporary polyphonic context and in the text explicitly mentions its
use for lyric continuation. Yet doing so does require the use of \skip1
in lyrics (which fact I've complained of on this list in the past) given
other internal changes to LP.
I am very happy to have a solution. Of course, now I have to remember to
explictly created named voices so they can be reverenced at need. But
that doesn't seem to onerous a burden given the utility.
Regards.
P.S. Kevin - use Lukas-Fabian's code to solve your lyric placement
problem. It's "modern" and had the advantage that future code edits
that may add or remove music may not also require you to add or remove
the \skip1 in your lyrics (which, I confess, can be a right PITA).
On 10/29/21 3:20 PM, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote:
Am 29.10.21 um 22:14 schrieb Guy Stalnaker:
Whoa! What is this magic you're doing Master Moser??
- I made sure that the bf4. on "days" stays in the voice called
melody. There are various ways to do this; I chose a "modern" way
using \voices and \\ inside << >> which allows to automatically
add a "second" voice
This is a technique completely unknown to me! It is much more simple
than the
%%%%
<<
{ \voiceOne }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo {
}}
>> \oneVoice
%%%%
coding that I have long used.
Much thanks!!
Thanks and credit are due to Master :-) Kastrup (in a series of
commits from 2017), but unfortunately, the documentation of \voices in
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/multiple-voices.html
doesn't show all its possibilities. A good explanation is in the
docstring to be found at
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/available-music-functions:
\voices [music] - ids (list of indexes or symbols) music (music)
Take the given key list of numbers (indicating the use of
‘\voiceOne’…) or symbols (indicating voice names, typically converted
from strings by argument list processing) and assign the following
\\-separated music to contexts according to that list. Named rather
than numbered contexts can be used for continuing one voice (for the
sake of spanners and lyrics), usually requiring a \voiceOne-style
override at the beginning of the passage and a \oneVoice override at
its end.
The default
<< … \\ … \\ … >>
construct would correspond to
\voices 1,2,3 << … \\ … \\ … >>
The inconspicuous "... or symbols (indicating voice names)" is very
powerful.
Lukas
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