Re: [bug?] \lyricsto with lyrics above notes

[Mats Bengtsson]

Juergen Reuter wrote:
> Ok, it finally seems to work over here; changing "hi4" to "hi8" has no 
> effect (as expected).  Still, I fear that the "{ s1 }" trick of the 
> example in section 3.3.1 of the manual is likely to break sooner or later 
> in future versions of lily.

Why should it? The principles behind this trick are:
- The name of a context determines it uniquely, i.e. if you say
  \context Lyrics = mylyrics at two different places in a .ly file,
  both pieces of lyrics will be part of the same lyrics context and
  therefore placed on the same vertical position.
- What I said above is true under the condition that the context
  is "kept alive", i.e. that the first \context Lyrics = myname contains
  something at least up til the point in the piece where the
  second one appears.


Still, I find it a bit strange that it should be so hard to let
\lyricsto refer to a Voice context that appears later in the .ly file,
which is the reason we have to play all these tricks.

  /Mats