Aha, thank you, that makes sense (and it works to boot).
On 8/8/07, Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 2007/8/8, Neil Thornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > For the life of me I can't figure out why the lyrics in the bass line
> > collide in the following snippet (below).
>
> That's because (IIUC) LilyPond tries to align the lyrics with the
> first Voice it founds. In case you want to add different lyrics, with
> different rhythm, to another melody (hence another Voice, whether it's
> on the same Staff or not), you have to explicitly specify which is the
> relevant associatedVoice (see below). By the way, giving names to your
> contexts is a good principle, but as Lyrics are associated to a Voice
> (not a Staff), you'd better introduce your vocal staves with
>
> \new Voice = "soprano"
>
> or
>
> \new Staff = "sopStaff" \new Voice = "soprano"
>
> instead of what you're using:
>
> \new Voice = "soprano"
>
> Good luck!
>
> Valentin
>
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> \version "2.11.28"
>
> soprano = \relative c' {
> \time 3/4 c4 c c
> \time 4/4 c2 c
> }
>
> bass = \relative c' {
> \clef bass \time 3/4 f,4. f
> \time 4/4 f f8~ f4 f
> }
>
> soplyrics = \lyricmode {
> hoff4 hoff hoff hoff2 hoff
> }
>
> baslyrics = \lyricmode {
> hoff4. shifted over -- lap shifted4
> }
>
> \score {
> \new ChoirStaff = choir <<
> \new Voice = soprano \soprano
> \new Lyrics \soplyrics
>
>
> \new Voice = bass \bass
> \new Lyrics {\set associatedVoice = #"bass" \baslyrics }
>
> >>
> }
>
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