Re: SATB.Ly template and putting lyrics below the staff

[Colin Campbell]

On 2022-03-09 04:51, Trevor wrote:
> Hi Colin, you wrote 08/03/2022 00:39:10:
>
> > I've just discovered Trevor Daniels' satb.ly system, and huge kudos 
> > to him! I've tweaked a bit by adding   \consists Merge_rests_engraver 
> > to a Layout variable, but I'm wrestling the lyrics a bit. By default, 
> > they come out aligned above context; how can I get them below?
> Thanks for the kudos! When I ran a choir I used satb.ly for pretty 
> well all the music we used.
>
> But I don't understand your difficulty - the lyrics are aligned below 
> their staff by default, except when two voices are combined on one 
> staff, see the examples at 
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/learning/satb-template .
>
> Could you please post an example showing your problem.

Good morning, Trevor

It's the two voices/one staff case which gives the problem. I don't know 
if it's a left-pondian thing, but it seems generally to be the case over 
here, that the lyrics are shown below a combined staff. I think I can 
get the effect by assigning lyrics to the lower of the two voices. I was 
nearly through a messy import from Finale when I found your template, so 
the combined notes were coming in with notes in the upper voice and 
skips in the lower. That meant lyrics had to be aligned to the upper 
voice only. I was hoping for a simple switch. but ended up simply adding 
the missing notes to the lower voices. Now that I know a bit more about 
it, I think stab.ly will become my tool of choice!


Cheers,

Colin