Re: Bar lines in polyphonic music and words under split voices

[David Kastrup]

Do something Artistic <address@hidden> writes:

> I have been working on a piece of music for some time now and cannot
> seem to get the following to happen.
>  
> 1. vocal parts with different measure lengths. Lilypond always seems
> to want to line bars up especially when one bar now has six beats from
> four or changes.

The manual has examples for dealing with meter changes and polyrhythm.
It is not clear from your description which of the two you are talking
about and why the solutions in the manual do not work for you.

> 2. attach words to a split vocal line of the form << {}\\ {}>>
> lilypond seems to want to just skip over it and go to the next
> "normal" part.

<URL:http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html>

Also the version of LilyPond you are using is important.

-- 
David Kastrup