Hi Lukas, First, I'm using LilyPond v. 2.20.0. (I often seem to end up at 2.18 and 2.21 when searching for documentation -- though explicitly changing the URL to 2.20 works.)
Second, I guess I'm not sure what you mean by a compatible example: I thought that's what I provided. But the URL below is what I'm trying to convert, if that's what you mean. Finally, I don't even know how to word the question. In the bit that I posted, the second full measure should be "days____ of old, Ere her" with "days" taking up everything except the last five notes, as shown on the bottom right of: https://archive.org/details/the-celtic-song-book/page/n22/mode/1up I see that the manual page I was looking at says I cannot do things the way previous pages taught me to do things with \addlyrics. Is that enough info to let you know where I'm struggling?
