Re: Lyrics and Repeats

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-05-18 6:21 am, Kaj Persson wrote:
> So I have looked at the alternative method, suggested in Notification
> Reference, to divide the piece, the voices in parts with one boundary
> at at the \repeat. In my current case the repeat point also is where
> the number of choral parts change, before that they have common words,
> so the method with double angle brackets in the lyrics should be
> applicable and suitable  But unfortunately I have not succeeded in
> this work, and this was what I tried to present in my first post.
> However I do not think the solution I presented is fully correct, but
> it was a try. I also had come across the case when a second \lyricsto
> introduced an extra \skip. With this post I include a special
> presentation of that.
>
> But back to the original task, probably it is impossible to solve it
> in the present version of LilyPond. My wish is that with the "<< >>"
> method you can forget all counting syllables in the first part of the
> piece.

I do not have time to dig in much further, but I think there is an issue 
with using \lyricsto when you are already within it.  Note below that we 
only use \lyricsto once and do not mess about with associatedVoice 
either:

%%%%
\version "2.22.0"

notes = \new Voice = melody \repeat unfold 8 { b'4 }
words = \new Lyrics \lyricsto melody {
  a a
  << { b b } \new Lyrics { c c d d } >>
  e e
}

<< \notes \words >>
%%%%

This seems to do what you need by not requiring any skipping.  Lyrics 
"b" and "c" start at the same time, both waiting until "a" is done.  
Note that "d" continues on the second line as it is part of the same 
context as "c"; however, "e" does wait until "d" is complete before 
resuming lyrics in the original context.


-- Aaron Hill

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