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minor docu issue - lyrics barchecks


From: Erik Sandberg
Subject: minor docu issue - lyrics barchecks
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:12:54 +0100
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Hi,

(this mail will look meaningless until the end, where I come to a only 
slightly meaningful point :) )

Having used | in lyrics for a while, I have discovered that the easiest way to 
think about barchecks in that context, is that barcheck may be added right 
_before_ the first stanza of a bar, not after the last stanza of the bar 
before. The reason is that if you think about it this way, you will 
drastically reduce the risk of adding the barcheck

\lyrics { a | a }
to the \notes {c1 | r4 c}
While typing vast amounts of lyrics, I tend to feel the first beats of 
measures, and then I insert |:s before their lyrics.

This seems like a more sensible convention than adding barchecks _after_ 
certain bars.

Now I'll get to my point: I earlier suggested that |:s could be added to 
lilypond's lyrics examples, for pedagogical reasons. This has been done.. Now 
my new suggestion is to move all barlines that are at the end of one row, to 
the beginning of the next row.

I.e., change
oden = \lyrics{
        O |
        den- ne- boom, o |
        den- ne- boom  Wat |
        zijn uw tak- ken |
        won- der- schoon
}

into
oden = \lyrics{
        O
        | den- ne- boom, o
        | den- ne- boom  Wat
        | zijn uw tak- ken
        | won- der- schoon
}


Erik





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