Re: Confused about output

[Malte Meyn]

Am 25.11.2015 um 02:19 schrieb Shane Brandes:
> After fiddling with this for hours i cannot figure out why the added
> lyrics e and i drop below the bass as opposed to the voices they ought
> to be associated with which is here "melody" and "mel" that live on
> the soprano staff. What am I missing?

You can use alignBelowContext. I must admit I didn’t really overlook 
your code structure so I didn’t use any variables. But it should be 
possible with your code structure too.

\version "2.18.2"

\score {
  <<
    \new Staff \with {
      instrumentName = "Soprano"
    } \new Voice = "soprano_v1" {
      a2
      <<
        c'
        \new Voice {
          \voiceTwo a
        }
        \new Lyrics \with {
          alignBelowContext = "soprano_l1"
        } \lyricmode {
          i
        }
      >>
    }
    \new Lyrics = "soprano_l1" \lyricsto "soprano_v1" {
      a e
    }
    \new Staff \with {
      instrumentName = "Bass"
    } \relative {
      \clef bass
      f e
    }
    \addlyrics {
      o u
    }
  >>
}