Re: Bug or Feature?: Lyrics have no durations

[Graham Percival]

On 8-May-05, at 2:23 AM, Heikki Johannes Junes wrote:

> On Sat, 07 May 2005 10:17:56 +0200 Erik Sandberg
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > There is a difference between \addlyrics and \lyricmode. \addlyrics or
> > \lyricsto
> >  ignore all durations and aligns syllables to notes, if you just use
> > \lyricmode
> > lily will use the durations you typed.
>
> This distiction is now clear to me when you said it. But I could not 
> find it
> explicitly in the manual. Therefore the chapter naming in 7.3.1 and 
> 7.3.2 should
> be changed to a more descriptive one.

I'd rather not mess with the titles... at least, I don't think we 
should specify
\addlyric and \lyricmode in the titles.

I've added this paragraph to 7.3.2.  Does it look good?
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There is a difference between @code{\addlyrics} and
@code{\lyricmode}.  @code{\addlyrics} and @code {\lyricsto}
ignore all durations and aligns syllables to notes; @code{\lyricmode}
uses the durations specified.
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I guess this part of the docs (bottom of 7.3.1) is false?  Should I 
delete it entirely,
or just modify it in some way?
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The \addlyrics command is actually just a convienient way to write a 
more complicated LilyPond structure that sets up the lyrics. You should 
use \addlyrics unless you need to do fancy things, in which case you 
should investigate \lyricsto or \lyricmode.

{ MUSIC }
\addlyrics { LYRICS }
is the same as

\context Voice = blah { music }
\lyricsto "blah" \new lyrics { LYRICS }
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Cheers,
- Graham