Re: Can't get soprano lyric above staff

[Holly Briscoe]

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ARVID replied:
>>          \context Lyrics = women \lyricsto sopranoMusic \sopranoWords
>
>Here's your problem: You need to say:
>
>         \context Lyrics = sopranoWords \lyricsto sopranoMusic \sopranoWords
>
>...to place the lyrics in the correct context.  When you tell them to use
>the "women" context, they will.  :-)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!! I thought the first item after the equals 
sign was the name of the STAFF that the lyrics were supposed to be attached to. 
Thank you so much!


On the extender problem you have below, I noticed the same thing as I have been 
working on various pieces the last few weeks. Sometimes I get ahead inputting 
the singers' notes, and sometimes I type all the lyrics in first. If I have 
more notes than lyrics,  then the extenders go from the last note and continue 
underneath the vocal rests until the first sung note, when the extender stops. 
Beats me.


>For some reason, I didn't get a lyrics extender here.  This may have to
>do with there being nothing after the notes in the sopranoMusic voice,
>but I don't know why that doesn't work.  I'm using 2.8.1, FWIW.
>
>>          \context Lyrics = women \lyricsto women \womenWords
>>          \context Lyrics = women \lyricsto altoMusic \altoWords
>>          \context Lyrics = men \lyricsto men \menWords
>
>Also, you may consider having an explicit bassMusic in the same way,
>but that will be easier now that you get the sopranoWords working.
>Anyway, your menWords is empty.
>
>As for your missing lyrics extender, I can't reproduce that with a simple
>example, but I get strange results (i.e. an overly long extender) with the
>following short example:
>
>\version "2.8.1"
>
>testlyrics = \lyricmode {
>  test. __
>}
>
>\score {
>
>  \context Score <<
>
>    \new Staff \relative c'' {
>      c d e r
>      <<
>        { \new Voice = foo 
>          \relative c'' {
>          \voiceOne  \slurUp
>            c4 ~ c ( d c )
>          }
>        }
>        { \voiceTwo R1 }
>      >>
>      r4 e f r | c e g c
>    }
>    \context Lyrics = bar \lyricsto foo \testlyrics
>  >>
>  \layout {}
> }