Francisco,

That's exactly what I needed. Many thanks!

/Holger

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Francisco Vila <paconet....@gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/7/7 Holger Hellebro <hol...@gmail.com>:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm struggling to get the lyrics right for a piece that for the most part
> > has only one line of lyrics, but in one place (i.e. not in the beginning)
> > there is a repeat and I need two stanzas of lyrics there. Is there any
> > convenient way of doing this? I have experimented with something like
> >
> >     \addlyrics { \words << \sfirst \ssecond >> }
> >
> > where \words are the lyrics for the first part of the piece and the
> \sfirst
> > and \ssecond are the lyrics for the two stanzas. Of course, this doesn't
> > work, but I believe it may illustrate what I'm trying to achieve. I've
> > looked through the documentation without luck, but any pointers would be
> > welcome in case I've just missed it.
> >
> > I suppose it's possible to have two stanzas for the complete piece and
> have
> > a lot of spaces (_) in the second stanza, but I'm hoping there's a more
> > convenient way of doing it.
>
> Try something like
>
> <<
> \new Staff { c' c' c' c'
>        \new Voice = "singleLyrics" { c' c' c' c' }
>        \new Voice = "doubleLyrics" { d' d' d' d' }
> c' c' c' c' }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "singleLyrics" \lyricmode { sin sin sin sin }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "doubleLyrics" \lyricmode { one one one one  }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "doubleLyrics" \lyricmode { two two two two  }
>
> >>
>
>
> --
> Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
> www.paconet.org
>
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