Re: lyric syllable skipping a note -- why?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Erik Sandberg <address@hidden>:

> On Monday 06 February 2006 23.16, Eduardo Vieira wrote:
> > Hello users,
> >
> > I've been struggling to set the lyrics correctly for this song. But I can't
> > assign the word "right" and the word "true" (2nd stanza) for the note "d2."
> > in this part: << { d2. } \\ { g,4.( f4.) } >>
>
> <<\\>> creates new voices implicitly, see manual. You need to do that 
> manually
> when voice naming matters, maybe something like:
> << \new Voice { \voiceOne ..} \context Voice = MelodySop {\voiceTwo ..} >>
> i.e. without \\.

Easiest is to only explicitly create a new voice for the voice that is 
split off, then the other will remain in the same Voice context as the 
surrounding music. For example, if you do {c d e f | << {\voiceOne c2 c 
} \new Voice {\voiceTwo g g } >>|  \oneVoice c1 }
then the c2 c will remain in the same Voice context as the first and last
bar, whereas the g g will appear in a new voice. Read Sect. "6.6.2 
Explicitly instantiating voices" for more information. You can also 
find several related emails in the mailing list archives.

  /Mats