%% Remark: %% This snippet produces a plethora of %% warning: ignoring too many clashing note columns %% If you really want to use it, you may invoke it on the command-line with %% lilypond -lERROR %% to surpress any warnings %% Several methods to do it different in NR, though. %% --Harm %If different stanzas of a song have different amount of syllables %the dispersion of the text may differ from stanza to stanza. %This snippets shows a possibility how notes of the second stanza can be printed as cue notes %when they differ from the notes of the first stanza. The snippets also positions the lyrics %of the different stanzas according to the voice of the respective stanza %The first three bars demonstrate what to do when the first stanza has less syllabes %than the second one. The last bar demonstrates how a dashed slur can be used %when first stanza has more syllabes than the scond one. firstStanzaLyrics = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1." First stan -- za has some text. And it goes on and on. } secondStanzaLyrics = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "2." But se -- cond stan -- za has some more. But here it has less! } firstStanzaVoice = \relative c' { c2 d e f g a b4 c c b a2 g } secondStanzaVoice = \relative c'{ %make notes smaller, so they appear as cue notes \override NoteHead.font-size = #-2 \override Voice.Stem.length = #5 \override Flag.font-size = #-3 %since we want the lyrics of the second stanza to be aligned correctly, %we need to enter the voice - even in the parts it equals the firstStanzaVoice %but we hide the secondStanzaVoice as long as it equals firstStanzaVoice \hideNotes %and we set \shiftOff so no extra space will be reserved for secondStanzaVoice in the system \shiftOff c2 d %when secondStanzaVoice differs firstStanzaVoice we want to print it, so undo the hide \undo \hideNotes \shiftOn e4. e8 f4. f8 %hide secondStanzaVoice as it equals firstStanzaVoice again \hideNotes \shiftOff g2 a %when there is a melisma in the secondStanza while not in the firstStanza %(because secondStanzaLyrics has more syllabes than firstStanzaLyrics), %we want to print a dashed slur: b4 c \slurDashed c4( b) a2 g } \score { \new Staff << \new Voice = "first" { \firstStanzaVoice } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "first" { \firstStanzaLyrics } \new Voice = "second" { \secondStanzaVoice } \new Lyrics \lyricsto "second" { \secondStanzaLyrics } >> }