On 07/02/2025 18:21, Timothy Lanfear wrote:
On 07/02/2025 16:40, David Wright wrote:
You can add the lyrics to the Staff instead of each voice. You just
have to add _ to each set of lyrics so that there's a syllable for
every moment in the staff, ie both voices.
Following on from David's tip, you could code your extract like this.
I'd not thought about aligning lyrics to a Staff instead of a Voice, so
thanks for the new insight into LilyPond.
\version "2.24.0"
\layout {
\context {
\Lyrics
\override LyricText.font-size = #-5
\override LyricHyphen.font-size = #-5
associatedVoiceType = #'Staff
associatedVoice = #"a"
}
}
one = \lyricmode { and may -- be once you tip me and it }
two = \lyricmode { You toss _ me your tips and look _ }
three = \lyricmode { Your whole _ stink -- in’ place _ will be }
music = {
\time 2/4
\partial 8 a'8 |
<<
{ \voiceOne a'16 a' a' bes' c'' c'' c'' bes' | }
\new Voice { \voiceTwo a'8 a'16 bes' c''8 c''16 bes' | }
>>
}
<<
\new Staff="a" \music
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "" { \one }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "" { \two }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "" { \three }
>>
Thank you for that. I also did not know thhat one could align lyrics to
a staff.
I am leaning towards using two or more NullVoices for the different
verses, and a "real" voice (with bits in parallel) for the music.
--
Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.
