Thanks everyone for the help with the skipping of text! It worked well with
the "_" sign.
Remains my other question if one can get rid of the extra repeat bar just
before the end. Lilypond is very firm: If you start with \partial 4 at the
beginning of a song you should end with 3 notes instead of 4... and Ireally
want 4 in the bar there.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Mats Bengtsson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Quoting Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>  Lara Diamand wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dominic,
>>>
>>> Thanks, this realy helps, one thing is not yet solves though: The text
>>> in the verses do not tek notice of the "volta", so the text in verse
>>> two runs through under volta 1. It should skip volta1 and go straight
>>> to volta 2.
>>>
>> That's the way Lily works.  It may not be completely intuitive.  The
>> lyrics just go along straight following the notes ignoring any other
>> structural commands like \volta and \alternative.  You have to put skips
>> in your music to skip endings, etc. where you don't want lyrics.  I
>> usually do this with "_" (underscore).
>>
>
> An alternative is to use the method described in section "Divisi lyrics"
> in the manual (don't stop at the first example, read the full subsection).
>
>  /Mats
>
>
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