Re: sponsorship offer: \lyricsto with \partcombine

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> Citerar Ted Walther <address@hidden>:
>
> > To typeset hymns with the same high quality that lilypond brings to
> > other areas of music typesetting, I need to be able to use \lyricsto
> > with \partcombine.
>
> What exactly do you want to do?
>
> If you want to align one lyric line to one voice, and another lyric line to
> another voice, then you can do something like:
> <<
> \partcombine \sopNotes \altoNotes
> \new Devnull="sop" \sopNotes
> \lyricsto "sop" \sopLyrics
> \new Devnull="alto" \altoNotes
> \lyricsto "alto" \altoLyrics

I think the proper thing to do is allow a new property to override 
associatedVoice, by eg. associatedVoices, a list of strings. The lyric 
engraver/iterator combo could then try a second context if the first one 
is inactive.

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