Re: vertical centering of chorus lyrics (and not needed code in snippets)

[Phil Holmes]

"Eluze" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> the source in
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music#vocal-music-vertically-centered-common-lyrics
> starts with
>
> \include "english.ly"
> leftbrace = \markup { \override #'(font-encoding . fetaBraces) \lookup
> #"brace240" }
> rightbrace = \markup { \rotate #180 \leftbrace }
>
> I think these lines should be skipped since neither English note names nor
> left braces are used afterwards (or the leftbrace and rightbrace should be
> used!)
>
> and I object to the 1st sentence:
>
> "In a vocal piece where there are several (two,four or more) lines of
> lyrics, and common lyrics for all voices at some point, these common 
> lyrics
> may be vertically centered regardingly, as shown in the following 
> example:"
>
> no (vertical) centering is done - it just positions the line with
> extra-offset 5 spaces lower.

I've updated the snippet:

http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=503

The docs will be updated when the snippet database is imported.

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad