Re: Learning Manual – simplify piano centered lyrics example?!

[Trevor Daniels]

"pls" wrote Saturday, April 25, 2015 11:31 AM

> yesterday I stumbled across this example in the Learning Manual:  
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/piano-centered-lyrics. 
> In my opinion it can and should be simplified.  Obviously there’s no need 
> anymore for a GrandStaff to accept Lyrics. \consists “Bar_engraver” has also 
> become unnecessary, here. To make the example more consistent with the text 
> I’d use a PianoStaff instead of a GrandStaff like so:

GrandStaff is used deliberately here to avoid the bar lines extending between 
the two staves, potentially crossing lyric syllables - except that I've just 
discovered the bar lines _do_ extend between the two staves, even when 
GrandStaff is used!  That needs more investigation.

Your other two points are valid, however.

As this template is obtained from the LSR you may provide a change there 
yourself and it will make its way into the docs automatically.  Go to
http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=piano+template+lyrics+centered
and click on "Contributing".

Trevor