Thank you all for all the replies! I used the voices method and it worked perfectly. My song is now structured as http://pastebin.com/0wsFibyx.
I was previously using ABC notation for writing out single staff musics. I changed to Lilypond because ABC does not support lyrics in Asian text. Admittedly ABC is much easier to read and learn, plus it intergrates well with Dokuwiki which I use, but after spending a few days reading up Lilypond docs and actually producing a page of music engraved in Lilypond, it was so satisfying to see the beautifully engraved music (and with lyrics in chinese too!). Learning Lilypond is like learning a new programming language, there's a lot of syntaxes to learn. The manual is very comprehensive and well written, except that I did find it confusing that it has a lot of sections to it (...doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation, ...doc/v2.16/Documentation/learning) i.e. a subject appearing in different 'version' of the manual. I found out that it's easier to write out music in Lilypond by outlining the overall structure of my music (as given in Jim's reply above) using simple bits of notes, testing out the structure then 'fleshing' it out adding other bits and pieces. There's still so much for me to learn (eg. compiling a book of hymns) but for now I'm satisfied in producing single pages of songs. :) For long time users of Lilypond, is there a workflow that you use, or do you use templates when writing/transcribing new music? Thanks again for the replies and regards, -- TY _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
