Re: How tosync lyrics

[Mats Bengtsson]

> LilyPond supports two ways (correct me if...) to synchronize
> lyrics with music notes.
>  1) "Simply" via \simultaneous (<>) construct.

You mean, by specifying the rhythm in both the music and the lyrics.

>  2) Via \addlyrics construct.
> 
> Using \addlyrics guards for inconsistencies
> and is in the spirit of saying things (the rhythm) only once.

Yes, and it hopefully saves some key strokes in the input.

> But on the other hand 'repeats' with different lyrics
> is problematic(?).

No, just do a \repeat fold with and empty repeat part and
the two text lines in two \alternative parts, see
input/star-spangled-banner.ly.

> 
> Can anyone please add insights or recommendations
> on which is the 'right way' to do things.

There's no right or wrong, but there are several possibilities.
I guess you mostly save some work using the addlyrics feature, 
though. 

    /Mats