Re: Suddenly lyrics aren't with the right notes

[Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence]

Shouldn't there be some kind of heads up from the program when something 
doesn't make sense like this?  It tells me all the time that I don't 
make sense about other bits and pieces why not this?
Jay

Erik Sandberg wrote:

> On Sunday 15 January 2006 13.34, Jay Hamilton, Sound and Silence wrote:
>  
>
> > Below is excerpt from a triple choir piece.  I took it out trying to
> > find what I've done wrong to have the lyricmode skip some notes but I
> > don't see my error.
> > winxp
> > the word 'meek' is attached properly but then the next notes are without
> > words so strong and dis- graced are attached late.
> > I'm not getting error notes when this is compiled it just doesn't put
> > them where I expect.
> > The rest of the score works fine.
> >    
>
> The problem is the tie between a note with a rest
>
> %18
> cis!8 ~ \bar "|" cis~ r8
>
> If you remove the second ~, it works fine.
>
> Lily's behaviour is rather odd, but a tie between note and rest makes little 
> sense, so it can be considered undefined behaviour.
>
>  

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