I enter lyrics not using \addlyrics or \lyricsto because my music is too rhythmically complex. I use
\set AssociatedVoice in the Lyrics context to control melismata - thus LyricExtender and LyricHyphen objects.
Problem: If I want to print the lyrics above the notes, the extenders don't print - presumably because the named AssociatedVoice context doesn't exist at the time when the lyrics are printed.
I can print the Lyrics below the text and then use an #'extra-offset but it seems clumsy.
Suggestions please?! See attached file - comment in/ out "above" and "below".
Many thanks,
Vivian.