I have a question about fitting lyrics. In the file I've pasted below this message is the hymn I am arranging for Barbershop chorus. The final stanza has all the four parts singing separately, as you can see. But there are occasional spots, as in stanza 1 where some parts will repeat a lyric. If you compile this file, you will see on the PDF that the \markup words I put in there follow the notes, rather than being in a nice line. Can someone suggest how to do this most conveniently? Each of the *other* three parts (tenor, baritone, bass) might have bits of this in certain spots.
Windoze XP Pro, LilyPond 2.11.14, jEdit 4.4pre9 with LilyPondTool
Blessings,
Father Gordon Gilbert+ -- Fr. Gordon Gilbert Penetanguishene, ON
\header { filename = "AmazingGrace-Sweet-Ads.ly
" enteredby = "Gordon Gilbert" composer = "Traditional American Melody" poet = "words: Rev'd John Newton, 1779" arranger = "arr. Gordon Gilbert 2007"
date="" title = "Amazing Grace" subtitle = "Arr. for Barbershop Chorus" metre = "" meter = \metre copyright = "Public Domain - Permission granted to perform this arrangement in a not-for-profit setting"
style = "Hymn" mutopiacomposer = \composer mutopiapoet=\poet maintainer = "" maintainerEmail = "" lastupdated = "2007/02/04" }
stanzaa = \lyricmode { \set stanza = "1." A -- ma -- zing Grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me;__ I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind but now I see.
\set stanza = "2." 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears re -- lieved;
How pre -- cious did that grace ap -- pear The hour I first be -- lieved.
\set stanza = "3." Thro' ma -- ny dan -- gers, toils and snares I have al -- rea -- dy come;
'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home. %bridge Lead us home, Lord!
\set stanza = "4." When we've been there ten thou -- sand years
Bright shin -- ing as the sun, We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we first be -- gun! %tag We've on -- ly just be -- gun!! } tenorwords = \lyricmode {
When we've been there ten thou -- sand years } bariwords = \lyricmode { When we've been there ten thou -- sand years Bright shi -- ning as the sun } basswords = \lyricmode {
When we've been there ten thou -- sand years Bright shin -- ing as the sun, We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we first be -- gun! } \score { % \transpose g ees
\context ChoirStaff << \context ChordNames \accomp \unset ChoirStaff.melismaBusyProperties \context Staff ="upper" { \clef "G" << \global
\tenor \lead >>} \new Lyrics \with{ alignAboveContext = "upper" } \lyricsto "tenorDivisi" \tenorwords