perfect can't thank you enough, David, for this clarification. cheers, Michael
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 3:02 PM David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > Miguel Abrams <[email protected]> writes: > > > I am a 'newbie ' learning this wonderful text based notation coding > > capability. > > > > I fail to perceive, through user documentation, the 'fundamental' > > difference between the two commands : > > > > Lilypond Version (2.19.55) > > > > lyricsto and addlyrics > > > > Perhaps someone might be able clarify this distinction for me? > > There is no fundamental difference. \addlyrics picks the context to > attach to automagically based on syntax. It may make a bad choice. > \lyricsto gets the context to attach to named explicitly, so it is more > reliable and can be used in more circumstances. > > As a handwavy rule, for simple stuff with lyrics, \addlyrics may be > fine. If you have more complicated settings, \lyricsto may be the safer > choice. > > -- > David Kastrup >
