Re: Aligning lyrics when music portion is polyphonic

[James E. Bailey]

El 27.02.2009, a las 22:53, Alberto Simões escribió:

> Hello
>
> James E. Bailey wrote:
> > El 27.02.2009, a las 22:38, Alberto Simões escribió:
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > In a music I am transcribing there is a portion where I had to  
> > > force two
> > > voices with
> > >
> > >   << { ... } \\ { ... } >>
> > >
> > > Now my problem is that lyrics in that part of the music are not  
> > > shown.
> > >
> > > Is there any tweak to solve this issue?
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > > Alberto
> >
> > Yes, do not use the <<{}\\{}>> construction. I realise that the  
> > Learning
> > Manual still introduces this topic early on, but it should be  
> > taken care
> > of soon. Instead, when you have polyphony, explicitly create the  
> > voices
> > with << {\voiceOne }\new Voice {\voiceTwo}>>\oneVoice. See section  
> > 1.5.2
> > of the Notation Reference for more information.
>
> Yay! Perrrfect!
>
> Thank you.
>
> Side note: wouldn't it be possible to make <<{}\\{}>> an  
> abbreviation to
> this? It is easier to write and remind.

That's a very old discussion. Let's just leave it that the two are  
different, and for lyrics, you need to use the longer version.  
Although the shorter version works wonderfully for piano music.