Re[2]: SATB.Ly template and putting lyrics below the staff

[Trevor]

Colin, you wrote 09/03/2022 12:54:41
> 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.
> 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!
Ah OK. Did you see that you can also specify several verses? These are 
aligned with the rhythms in the soprano voice (or the alto if there is 
no soprano line) when you specify two voices per staff. They are placed 
between the two staves. I've attached an example of this. HTH

Trevor

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