Thank you, Unfortunately, in this case (the real score from which the example was extracted) I need the words to be repeated so I can unfold them for midi output. I'll just have to do the unfold manually.
Kevin. On Sat, 9 Dec 2023, at 23:45, Michael Werner wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 11:31 PM Kevin Pye <[email protected]> wrote: >> __ >> What silly mistake am I making here? > > Not all that silly. Though the docs do talk about putting lyrics into the > same repeat structure as the music, there's one detail in > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/lyrics-and-repeats that > you may have missed: > > "... when one of the `\alternative` blocks starts with a rest, a repeat > construct cannot be used around the words" > > Change the lyrics block to just > > words = \lyricmode { > a b c d e > } > > and it should behave itself a bit better for you. > -- > Michael
