Hi Phil, Michael, List, I like Phil's suggestion, as it also separates the voices for later, should my client get wise that this is, in all honesty, bad notation that he's asking for.
I'll give it a shot and see what I can do. Will that automatically place the lyrics on different sides of the staff? Cheers, A On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Phil Holmes <m...@philholmes.net> wrote: > Why not just use two voices on the single staff, with separate lyrics to > each voice, and spacer rests where the voice isn't singing? > > -- > Phil Holmes > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* N. Andrew Walsh <n.andrew.wa...@gmail.com> > *To:* lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org> > *Sent:* Thursday, September 07, 2017 9:58 AM > *Subject:* Lyrics above/below on the fly > > Hi List, > > I'm working on a project where the composer wants both singing voices on > the same staff (it's a call-and-response thing), but such that whenever > "voice 1" is singing, stems and lyrics are down, and whenever "voice 2" is > singing, they're up. > > I can switch stem direction with \stemUp and \stemDown, and I can use \set > Staff.instrumentName to change the name as well. But is there some command > to change the lyrics' vertical placement so-to-speak on the fly? With a > single voice? Usince \set Lyrics.alignAboveContext = "staff" doesn't seem > to work. > > Or is there some smarter way to do this, maybe using partcombine or > something? > > Thanks for the help! > > A > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >
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