Re: Missing notes after lyrics end: bug?

[David Kastrup]

James <address@hidden> writes:

> On 16/12/13 09:28, Eluze wrote:
>> Trevor Daniels wrote
>>> Arjen Bax wrote Sunday, December 15, 2013 2:48 PM
>>>
>>>> Complete minimal working example, omitting the lower staff:
>>>>
>>>>   \version "2.16.2"
>>>>
>>>>   sopTxt = \new Lyrics = sopL \with { alignAboveContext = "upper" }
>>>>     \lyricsto sop \lyricmode { A C }
>>>>
>>>>   sopV = \relative c'' { << { c2 c } { \sopTxt } >> c4 c c c }
>>>>   altV = \relative c'  { c4 c c c c c c c }
>>>>
>>>>   \score {
>>>>     \new ChoirStaff <<
>>>>       \new Staff = upper <<
>>>> \new Voice = sop { \voiceOne \sopV }
>>>> \new Voice = alt { \voiceTwo \altV }
>>>>       >>
>>>>       \new Lyrics \lyricsto alt { A B C D E F G H }
>>>>     >>
>>>>   }
>>>>
>>>> Where are the four c4 notes of the soprano?
>>> This may be a bug.  Copying to the bug list.
>>>
>>> Removing \lyricsto restores the missing notes, so as a work-around,
>>> given you have just one bar, remove \lyricsto and enter the duration
>>> of each syllable explicitly.
>
> Or did this user have a problem because it wasn't obvious in the
> documentation?
>
> I don't understand Lyrics in LilyPond, but if this person is asking
> the question, others might so we need to know if the doc needs
> improving (and of course is this intended behavior anyway?).

I don't think it is intended behavior.  At least I can't find anything
in the code (lyric-combine-music-iterator I think) that would seem to be
intended to kill the music when the lyrics stop.

-- 
David Kastrup