Re: quoteDuring with lyrics

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kieren MacMillan" <address@hidden>
To: "Lilypond-User Mailing List" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 2:45 PM
Subject: quoteDuring with lyrics


> Hello all,
>
> I’m trying to make my content code as efficient as possible (e.g., using 
> variables, quotes, etc.).
>
> In the choral piece I'm currently engraving, there is a lot of choral 
> unison, so I'm using quoteDuring to "copy" notes from the soprano line to 
> the others. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work with lyrics — or at 
> least it works unpredictably: some quotes seem to quote lyrics, but then 
> lyric quotes later in the piece (i.e., after intervening sections which 
> are independent) seem to fail.
>
> Before I spend the time to try to put together a MWE, is there some reason 
> to believe quoteDuring shouldn't work on lyrics? Or, better put, is there 
> any reason to believe it *should* (as I obviously did)? I found 
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2012-11/msg00280.html> 
> from 2012, but figured there might have been changes in the meanwhile that 
> make the question fresh again.
>
> Thanks for any insights.
> Kieren.

I wonder whether it's down to Lily changing the voice during some quoted 
passages?

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Phil Holmes