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

[Kevin Cole]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 3:03 PM Kevin Cole <dc.loco@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Lukas,
>
> First, I'm using LilyPond v. 2.20.0. (I often seem to end up at 2.18
> and 2.21 when searching for documentation -- though explicitly
> changing the URL to 2.20 works.)
>
> Second, I guess I'm not sure what you mean by a compatible example: I
> thought that's what I provided. But the URL below is what I'm trying
> to convert, if that's what you mean.
>
> Finally, I don't even know how to word the question. In the bit that I
> posted, the second full measure should be
>
> "days____ of old, Ere her" with "days" taking up everything except the
> last five notes,
>
> as shown on the bottom right of:
>
> https://archive.org/details/the-celtic-song-book/page/n22/mode/1up
>
> I see that the manual page I was looking at says I cannot do things
> the way previous pages taught me to do things with \addlyrics.
>
> Is that enough info to let you know where I'm struggling?

P.S. The full source to the song I'm working on is at:

https://codeberg.org/ubuntourist/celtic_song_book/src/branch/main/source/irish/let_erin_remember_days_old.ly

(There's some comments in the middle starting with "# Gah!" which is
just a copy and paste of the portion of the manual that I don't
understand. You can ignore that.)