Re: Lyric in popular score

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello Marcos,

first: welcome to the list!
Second: It almost always helps if you add a compilable, possibly tiny 
example <http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html> to your post – thus it 
will be easier a) to understand the problem and b) to give you a solution.
Third general remark: Are you familiar with the Learning Manual? 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/index.html> It’s a 
great resource for getting started with LilyPond and covers all the 
basics, also tutoring you on how to use the other manuals – so you 
shouldn’t miss studying that! It’ll be very rewarding.
But now to your question :-)

Am 01.09.2015 um 22:34 schrieb Marcos Press:
> Dear list,
>
> Iḿ trying to add the lyric of a folk song to a score.
>
> How do I tell the lyric in wich measure to start?
There are two general ways to enter lyrics: 1) entering them with 
explicit durations and 2) automatically aligning them to a voice through 
\addlyrics or \lyricsto (or \set associatedVoice).

1) Use a skip of the required length to skip the first part of the music.
2) Repeat the skip as many times as there are notes to skip.

Example attached.

You’ll find that with the first method, the syllables are all 
left-aligned to the notes, at least if you use version 2.18.2 or 
earlier. This is a bug fixed only in the more recent development 
versions, so at least for the stable version you’re better off with 
\lyricsto.
In simple setups, \addlyrics may be used as well in place of \new Lyrics 
\lyricsto.

> Can anyone point me where to look for an answer?
The Learning Manual has a section on lyrics: 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/learning/songs>, but the 
answer to your question is hidden deep in the Notation reference, in 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#lyrics-and-repeats>.
> Thanks in advance!
You’re welcome! HTH [Hope that helps].

Simon

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