Re: Lyric extender in RhythmicStaff

[David Kastrup]

Lukas-Fabian Moser <lfm@gmx.de> writes:

>>> Why is there no LyricExtender in the RhythmicStaff? What's missing? 
>>> (Followup
>>> question: Is this behaviour intended?)
>> \displayMusic
>> \new RhythmicStaff \with { \consists Grob_pq_engraver } {
>>    1 ~ 2 4
>> }
>> \addlyrics { hey __ you }
> Thanks much - I would never haved guessed that this one is the
> culprit! (Is the \displayMusic an artifact of your research, or do you
> want to point something out?)

Artifact, sorry.

>> If you take a look at the definition of RhythmicStaff in
>> engraver-init.ly in comparison to the definition of Staff (they are
>> separate and independent), you'll find that RhythmicStaff is missing a
>> lot of material that actually would be needed for proper operation.
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> It would probably make some sense to try deriving it from Staff .
>
> Yes, that's what I sometimes thought as well. I can't try this at the
> moment, but ... another item on the "to do/to try" list.

-- 
David Kastrup