Re: polyphony and lyrics

[Jean-Jacques Rétorré]

Mats Bengtsson a écrit :
> Please always tell what LilyPond version you use, otherwise you
> might get an answer that's irrelevant, since LilyPond is still
> evolving quickly from version to version. From your example it
> looks as if you use version 2.2 or older, so I'll assume 2.2 below.

I'm a Debian Sarge user:

address@hidden:~$ lilypond --version
lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.6


> Did you read the section in the manual called "The Lyrics context"?
> As you can find out there, you should explicitly name the Voice
> context you want to attach the lyrics to.
I tried to, since I'm not a very good english reader.

> Also, there's a conceptual misunderstanding here. A Staff context
> can only contain notes, i.e. Voice contexts. In other words, you
> cannot have your lyrics included within the \new Staff << ... >>.


> However, the main problem of your score was the tie on the
> final e of the triplet. Since the next note isn't also an e,
> you cannot have any tie and for some strange reason LilyPond
> got confused and thought that you had a melisma extending to the
> next e in the score (which never happened in your example).
> I will send a bug report about this problem.

That's very fine of you.

> Here's a modified version of your example:
[snip]

Works perfectly, except the melisma :-(
Thank you really much.
JJR.