Re: Trying to get the hang of "Polyphony with Shared Lyrics" section of the manual.

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Kevin,

Am 29.10.21 um 20:17 schrieb Kevin Cole:
> So. I have a piece with a few sections where there are two "voices" as
> I understand things. And according to the manual, the solution, which
> works fine is:

Could you please post a compilable example? (Preferably as short as 
possible, but if all else fails, "compilability" is more important than 
"shortness", at least in my book.)

> The problem is that I don't quite understand how to deal with lyric
> extenders. I've looked at:
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#polyphony-with-shared-lyrics
>
> but the example isn't quite helping, since the way the book told me to
> do the voices in the melody appears to be different from the way the
> page above is doing things...

Can you describe what's confusing you? I'll readily admit that the 
lyrics section in the documentation deserves an overhauling, and I have 
a local branch where I started working on that, but since term started 
at our university, LilyPond fiddling time is scarce...

By the way: You link to the 2.18 documentation, which is heavily 
outdated. Which version of LilyPond are you actually using?

Lukas