Re: Chapter 2.1 Vocal music of LPNR

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-08-27 1:12 am, Jacques Menu wrote:
> Here is an MWE showing my problem.
>
> What I don’t understand is why and extra ‘_2’ is needed in
> lyricsManual to obtain the same alignment as in the two automatic
> cases.
>
> [ . . . ]

It appears that you are trying to use both automatic and manual syllable 
durations at the same time.  If I were the doc writer, I would want to 
know how you got down this path.  I could not find an example in the NR 
that uses both techniques at the same time.  Ultimately, you should 
either just specify the durations by hand or not at all relying on 
\addlyrics or \lyricsto.

As far as I can tell, the reason for the behavior you are seeing is that 
\set associatedVoice in the \with block is having no effect.  You are 
actually relying solely on manual durations for that test case.  And you 
need to specify the duration of that final "_" syllable to match the 
timing of the notes, since the preceding, and thusly inherited, duration 
is an eighth note.  For the second test case, your use of \lyricsto is 
properly overriding any durations you specify based on the notes in the 
context named.  The fact that "_" is input as an implicit eighth does 
not matter then.

To circle back to the docs, where did you see \set associatedVoice used 
within a \with block?  Near as I can tell, it is only used to *change* 
the context for timing when used within an \addlyrics or \lyricsto 
block.  It does not appear to be intended for use alone.


-- Aaron Hill