Re: Lyrics alignment, stanza numbers, metadata

[Mats Bengtsson]

Don Blaheta wrote:

> Quoth Mats Bengtsson:
>  
>
> > For some reason, LilyPond gets confused by your construct
> > \new Voice {
> >  \relative {
> >    \time 6/4
> >    \key f \major
> >    \context Voice = "refrain" { ...
> >
> > If you replace \new Voice by \context Voice = refrain in your \score
> > block, then the alignment of both stanza numbers and syllables is
> > correct.
> >    
>
> The original reason I started doing it that way was I had a couple of
> songs whose verses came after their refrain, and I had no actual
> understanding of how Voices work, or that they didn't nest, or anything
> like that. :)  Your suggestion won't quite work for the refrain-verse
> structure I note, but there are others that will.
>  
I forgot to mention that the stanza and lyrics alignment is correct when
I try your original example with version 2.7, so you can consider it a bug
in 2.6.

>  
>
> > > 3) The metadata permitted in \header seems ill-suited for a lot of the
> > > stuff I'm typing in (old churchy stuff, mostly).  [...]
> > >      
> > I usually don't bother so much about the names of the different fields.
> > Often, you can use a field like poet for something else. Note also that
> > you can easily specify several lines for each field using text markup,
> > for example
> > poet = \markup{\column \line {Aaaa Bbbb, v1,3} \line{Cccc Dddd, v2,4 }}
> >    
>
> Ah, didn't realise that.  I'm kind of a metadata snob, and I hate mixing
> content and presentation like that, but if that's the way to do it
> that's what I'll do. :)
>  

The purist solution, of course, is to redefine the functions that 
typeset the
titling. Then you can use any field names you wish. See the end of
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/lilypond/Creating-titles.html#Creating-titles
for more information.

  /Mats