Issue 707 in lilypond: Enhancement: an invisible Voice dedicated to Lyrics alignment.

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Issue 707: Enhancement: an invisible Voice dedicated to Lyrics alignment.
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=707

New issue report by v.villenave:
A while ago, Erik Sandberg proposed to use the DevNull context to align
lyrics to an invisible voice:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2006-05/msg00379.html

As illustrated in Issue 248 and Issue 247, however, this trick has
downsides and therefore is no longer recommended.

This led Mats to request a feature that would somehow make it "possible to
place the lyrics according to a Voice that's not typeset."

"Erik's proposal was a response to such a request to be able to typeset the
lyrics of a song over a guitar accompaniment, without typesetting the song
itself. If you ever played a Bach cantata, you know that the same principle
often is used in the instrumental parts for the arias and recitatives,
where the lyrics is typeset on top of the instrumental part to make it
simpler to follow, but the where it would require too much space to also
typeset the full song part."

It is also very much used in modern operas/musicals (Bernstein and others).


Issue attributes:
        Status: Accepted
        Owner: v.villenave
        Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium

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