Re: Bug or Feature?: Lyrics have no durations

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:
> 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?
> ----
> 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 }


What's wrong about it? I corrected the syntax some months ago and
think it's still correct by now. On the other hand, if you read the
manual page by page, you could argue that the information here isn't
very helpful since \lyricsto hasn't been explained yet.

  /Mats