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Re: Combining lyrics lines


From: -Eluze
Subject: Re: Combining lyrics lines
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:13:05 -0700 (PDT)


Jean-Charles Malahieude-2 wrote:
> 
> Please find enclosed a draft. It is much less complicated than what 
> Keith O'Hara provided in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-12/msg00674.html
> which might help you understand what singers might read.
> 
> You'll see what I mean by commenting the layout overrides.
> 
> \version "2.14.0"
> texidoc = " The space engine preserves by default the space for the
> empty sections of lyrics, so that the lines remain consistently spaced.
> 
> When you want to use a separate @code{Voice} context for each
> singer, even though the melodies usually don't overlap, you might want
> to let interrupted lyrics collapse to a single line.
> 
> The layout overrides may still be useful for scores where there is
> occasional small overlap between the voices, though.
> 
> In order to easily identify who sings, one of the lyrics may be
> displayed in italics.
> "
> doctitle = "Combining lyrics"
> 
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Lyrics
>     \override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing
>        #'minimum-distance = ##f
>     \override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-unrelatedstaff-spacing
>        #'minumum-distance = ##f
>     \override LyricText #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-0.6 . 2.0)
>   }
> }
> 
> <<
>   \new Staff <<
>     \new Voice = "mum" { f'4^"mum" g' r2 | s1 | \break a'2 g' | f'1 }
>     \new Voice = "dad" { s1        | a'2^"dad" g' | e'1 }
>   >>
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "dad" \lyricmode {
>     \override LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic
>     may -- be... to -- mor -- row }
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mum" \lyricmode { let's say now }
>>>
> 

I think this needs some adaptation:

- the lyrics "mum" and "dad" don't fit to the voices - should they be
inversed!?

- Reedmace Star had proposed to use \voiceOne and \voiceTwo (which is quite
usual when notating 2 voices in 1 staff): this helps the singers to locate
their part (and also eliminates the warnings about clashing notes).
But with the stems going down the lyrics are moved downwards, too, and they
don't seem to be on one line anymore. (maybe adding some kind of padding
could help).


I also think there are some LilyPond features that will not work in the
normal way and should be  discussed:

- stanza numbers
- vocalName (shortVocalName)

should this mentioned?


thanks
Eluze




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