RE: Lyrics collide with barlines

[Trevor Daniels]

Hi Catalin

Try changing the \new StaffGroup statement to \new ChoirStaff.

This will restrict all the barlines to just the music staves and avoid all 
clashes with the lyrics.

Trevor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Catalin Francu
> Sent: 23 October 2006 22:58
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Lyrics collide with barlines
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have typeset over 100 pages of music with Lilypond 2.8.6 last month
> and there's only one thing that I could not figure out how to do.
> Every now and then, lyrics will collide with barlines. See for
> example:
> 
> http://catalin.francu.com/Music/colinde/
> 
> (some Romanian carols). Look at la_vitleem_colo_n_jos.ly and the
> generated la_vitleem_colo_n_jos.pdf. You'll see the collisions right
> from the first system. The documentation proposes a solution here:
> 
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vocal
> -music.html#Vocal-music
> 
> However, that doesn't work well for me. See the modified
> la_vitleem_colo_n_jos2.ly and la_vitleem_colo_n_jos2.pdf in the same
> folder. Two unwanted effects happen when I do what the manual says:
> 
> - The bar lines now extend down, including the bass lyrics (before,
> they ended on the bass staff)
> - Some non-simple barlines (such as the repeat barline after measure
> 18) appear chopped in pieces.
> 
> Ideally, I'd like a way to tell Lilypond "I want at least two mm of
> space between barlines and text".
> 
> Other than that, big big kudos (I wish I only had one gripe with every
> software package I used).
> 
> Catalin
> 
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