Hi, As soon as associatedVoice has been set to /anything/, LilyPond will pick the next best voice it can find.
The actual value assigned to associatedVoice is only important if there are multiple voices present to choose from. Let me illustrate that with an amended example taken from the documentation: ~~~ \version "2.18.2" \score { << \new Staff << \new Voice = "melodyOne" { \relative { \voiceOne a'4 a a a \repeat volta 2 { b4 b b b( | c b a b) } } } \new Voice = "melodyTwo" { \relative { \voiceTwo a'4 a a a \repeat volta 2 { b4 b b b( | c b2.) } } } >> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melodyOne" { Not re -- peat -- ed. << { The first time words. __ } \new Lyrics { \set associatedVoice = "bogus" Sec -- ond time words. __ } \new Lyrics { \set associatedVoice = "melodyTwo" The third time words. __ } >> } >> } As you can see, the "Second time words" align with melodyOne (the first to come in case of bogus assignment), but "The third time words" align with melodyTwo. HTH, Torsten -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user