Re: divisi music for one measure

[Valentin Villenave]

On 4/5/19, N. Andrew Walsh <address@hidden> wrote:
> How can I keep this phrasing slur where
> it is, when the lyrics in both voices terminate on a note tied to that f4.
> in Bar 8?

Greetings Andrew,
I’m not sure what’s happening there (an example would be helpful):
phrasing slurs entered as \( \) are not supposed to affect lyrics.
(That’s the point of using these instead of slurs entered with
parentheses.)

If there’s a hyphen error, then most likely your syllable count has
changed somewhere due to your tricks with associatedVoices, and
therefore no longer matches the notes.

As far as slurs go, you may be interested in various useful hacks, for
example using the empty chord <> as an anchor in case you need to
switch between mono- and polyphonic constructs:
%%%%
{
  g'1\(
  << {a'2 b'} \\ fis'1 >>
  <>\)
  d'1
  b\( <>\)
  << {e'2 fis'} \\ cis'1 >>
}
%%%%

And by the way, one last thing: I noticed in your first post that you used
 \markup { 1. Was}
for the beginning of your German lyrics. There are less complicated
possibilities, for example
 "1. Was"
or
１._Was
(ok, that last one is sort of a hack).
My point is, you could prefer using \markup for cases where adding
formatting is required, for example in this case:
\markup { \small \number 1. Was }

Cheers,
V.