Re: lyric placement

[Paul Scott]

David Boersma wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Paul Scott wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me why this code places all of the lyrics under the
> > highvoice staff instead of each set of lyrics under its own staff?
> >    
> Hello,
>
> You should treat a Lyrics context just like a Staff context: if there are
> more of them, give them names, otherwise Lily doesn't know which Lyrics
> context you are talking about and it will just assume that there is only
> one Lyrics context/line and add all words to that line.
Thank you very much.  I didn't really understand how that worked for 
staff context either.  Now that you describe it this way I see where the 
documentation on contexts should help me make a lot more sense of this.  
The relationship between these two templates didn't make sense:

|/extra/debian/lilypond-1.6.6/input/template/satb.ly| 
<cid:part1.04070300.09050604@ultrasw.com>
|/extra/debian/lilypond-1.6.6/input/template/piano-melody-lyrics.ly| 
<cid:part2.02070107.01020803@ultrasw.com>

and I don't yet understand why commands like \note and \context seem to 
be sometimes used redundantly.

Thanks again,

Paul