Kevin,
You're encountering an known situation with
polyphonic contexts like this one. A change in 2.20.x modified
how lyrics are calculated in these polyphonic contexts. You need
to manually add to the *lyrics* \skip1 to position the lyrics
where you want them. Like so:
%%%%
words = \lyricmode {
\override LyricSpace.minimum-distance = #1.5
Let | % 0
E -- rin re -- mem -- ber the | % 1
days __ \skip1 \skip1 of old, Ere her | % 2 <-- HERE
faith -- less sons be -- | % 3
trayed her; When | % 4
}
%%%%
Regards.
On 10/29/21 1:17 PM, Kevin Cole wrote:
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:
melody = {
\relative {
\global
\new Voice = "melody" {
\partial 4 bf4^\f | % 0
ef4 ef8. f16\noBeam g4 g8. af16\noBeam | % 1
<<
\mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn
\mergeDifferentlyDottedOn
{ \voiceOne bf8 bf8\noBeam bf4 }
\new Voice
{ \voiceTwo bf4. bf8 }
>>
\oneVoice
af4 g8 af8\noBeam | % 2
\break
bf4 c4 g4 ef4 | % 3
f2 ef4 bf4 | % 4
,,,
}
words = \lyricmode {
\override LyricSpace.minimum-distance = #1.5
Let | % 0
E -- rin re -- mem -- ber the | % 1
days of old, Ere her | % 2
faith -- less sons be -- | % 3
trayed her; When | % 4
...
}
\score {
<<
\new Staff \with {midiInstrument = #"violin"} { \melody }
\addlyrics { \words }
>>
}
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...
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