Re: Multiple lyrics problem

[Nancho Alvarez]

> I'm wondering what the best way is to accomplish this. Basically I 
> want this:
>
>
> Some ly-rics on a sing-le line for the first part
>
> 1. (tacet)
> 2. Ly-rics for sec-ond stan-za
> 3. Ly-rics for third__ stan-za

I do not know it it will work in your version of lilypond, but in older 
versions it was done like this:

\lyrics{
<
{ _ _ _ _ _  }

\context Lyrics \lyrics{Ly -- rics se -- cond }

\context Lyrics \lyrics{Ly -- rics third }

>
}


you can check for example
http://tomasluisdevictoria.org/ly/O_Magnum_Mysterium-6-Agnus_Dei.ly

I hope it helps
                                             NANCHO