I have been navigating the lilypond world for the past six months and have been primarily exploring lilypond as a tool for creating leadsheets and songbooks.
My main interest is figuring out how to create an efficient template for creating a leadsheet (or "fakebook" style sheet) for all types of modern guitar-vocal based songs.
I am wrestling with the formatting for lyrics. I am aiming for a modular approach to constructing lilypond input so that I can format sheets for a wide variety of song styles. The main problem I am having is the vertical alignment of lyrics assigned to one or more voice contexts. I will start off with a small example to exemplify the problem. In the following example, I am printing off the melody and lyrics to "Frere Jacques". I creating separated voice contexts for each "section" of the song, and am assigning lyrics to each section. The
resulting output properly assigns the correct lyric to the correct voice, but the different lyrics are rendered on the same vertical line- each successive lyric is placed lower than the one preceding it.
How do I change this so that each lyric snippet is vertically aligned? All my keyword searcing through the archives and manual hasn't come up with anything that seems to work (I've tried overriding the minimum-Y-extent and Y-offset of the lyric context with no discernable change).