(re-sending this as sent wrongly previously) Thanks David, but I'm afraid it didn't quite work.
If I do this... ---------------snippet1-starts----- \new Staff { \clef bass \new Voice \relative c { c4 c s1*0 } { << \new Voice = "pabadaba" \relative g { g8 f e d } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "pabadaba" { pa ba da ba } >> ---------------snippet1-ends------ ... it has the same effect as before (i.e. notes "e" and "g" wrongly put on the top of each other). If I do this... ---------------snippet2-starts----- \new Staff { \clef bass \new Voice \relative c { c4 c } { << \new Voice = "pabadaba" \relative g { g8 f e d s1*0 } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "pabadaba" { pa ba da ba } >> ---------------snippet2-ends------ ... then the notes are correct, but the "pa ba da ba" lyrics do not appear at all and the error trail goes as follows: ------error-trail-starts---- GNU LilyPond 2.14.2 Processing `example.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... example.ly:24:21: warning: Two simultaneous lyric events, junking this one ba da ba } example.ly:23:53: warning: Previous lyric event here \new Lyrics \lyricsto "pabadaba" { pa example.ly:24:24: warning: Two simultaneous lyric events, junking this one ba da ba } example.ly:23:53: warning: Previous lyric event here \new Lyrics \lyricsto "pabadaba" { pa example.ly:24:27: warning: Two simultaneous lyric events, junking this one ba da ba } example.ly:23:53: warning: Previous lyric event here \new Lyrics \lyricsto "pabadaba" { pa Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page... Drawing systems... Layout output to `example.ps'... Converting to `./example.pdf'... success: Compilation successfully completed ------error-trail-ends---- Thanks, Martin On 19 February 2012 18:20, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Marteno MINIĤ <marteno.min...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> In my song basses are singing alternative lyrics (pa ba da ba) only in >> a part of the song (before and after that are singing normal lyrics >> with everybody else). >> >> I was trying to figure out from the manual how to do this in Lilypond >> but maybe my solution is not correct although I cannot understand why. >> >> Immediately after the "pa ba da ba" section, the notes "e" and "g" >> (sung on "sil-ly") in bass part should go one after another but for an >> unknown reason Lilypond combines them into one. > > I suspect <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2010> > > Try putting s1*0 at the end of the _notes_ before the problem lyrics. > That way the lyricsto context syllables inherit this duration as default > and the whole situation hopefully does not occur. > > Of course, this is only a workaround for a really weird bug. > > -- > David Kastrup > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user