Re: joining corresponding lyrics to one line of text?

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kohnert <address@hidden> writes:

    Jan> The simplest way to do this would be to type " " for each
    Jan> syllable, that should not be shown and then only type the
    Jan> words that differ.  " " is not shown on output.

It depends on how long the section that's the same is.  If it's long,
I find the simplest way is to just split the tune where you need
different numbers of words, and then put it together in the score
section.

Like:

wordsA = \lyrics{these words are the same for all parts.}

wordsB = \lyrics {and these are for the soprano.}

wordsC = \lyrics { and these are just for the alto.}

notesAsop = \notes {soprano notes that go with wordsA}

notesAalt = \notes {alto notes that go with wordsA}

notesB = \notes {notes that go with wordsB}

notesC = \notes{ notes that go with wordsC}

\score = {<\addlyrics{\notesAsop \wordsA}
        \notesAalt>
        <\addlyrics{\notesB \wordsB}
        \addlyrics{\notesC =wordsC}
        >
}

If you have lots of short little sections where the words differ or
are the same, Jan's suggestion is probably better.

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