Re: Learning Manual – simplify piano centered lyrics example?!

[Noeck]

Hi

>>> yesterday I stumbled across this example in the Learning Manual:  
>>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/piano-centered-lyrics. 
>>> In my opinion it can and should be simplified.  Obviously there’s no need 
>>> anymore for a GrandStaff to accept Lyrics. \consists “Bar_engraver” has 
>>> also become unnecessary, here. To make the example more consistent with the 
>>> text I’d use a PianoStaff instead of a GrandStaff like so:
>>
>> GrandStaff is used deliberately here to avoid the bar lines extending 
>> between the two staves, potentially crossing lyric syllables - except that 
>> I've just discovered the bar lines _do_ extend between the two staves, even 
>> when GrandStaff is used!  That needs more investigation.
> 
> Yes, that’s weird, indeed!

A GrandStaff is connecting the bar lines on purpose (like for a string
ensemble). You probably think of a ChoirStaff here which does not
connect bar lines in favour of the lyrics (as in a choir score).

But the heading explicitly mentions a piano staff.

Cheers,
Joram


http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/grandstaff
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/internals/choirstaff