On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Hayden Muhl <
address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm type setting an aria where there are optional low notes for a single
> measure. My normal approach when setting instrumental music does not work
> here, because the lyrics do not follow the notes properly.
>
> Here's my snippet.
>
>
http://www.lilybin.com/hjtorv/1
>
> The text "la catena" should match to the notes in measures 1 and 2. "Che non
> cerca" should follow starting on measure 3.
>
> I think I understand what the problem is, but I don't know how to fix it.
> There are three different voices, and the lyrics are following only one of
> them. There is one voice that contains the notes in measures 1, 3 and 4, and
> then two more voices for the notes in measure 2.
>
> I've had the same problem before when having to tie and slur between divisi
> and non-divisi sections of a score. Hopefully there is a sane method of
> getting this to work that I'm not aware of.