Re: Lyrics and s1

[Mats Bengtsson]

The meaning of s1 is described at:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Skips.html

What happens in the template is that all the Lyrics contexts are
initiated first without containing any actual syllables, just to
get them in the correct order (see
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/The-Lyrics-context.html 
).
The spacing rest is included just to keep the context "alive" long
enough that the real contents gets started.

   /Mats

Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> In my ongoing quest to make barbershop-style notation as quick and
> painless as possible, I downloaded 2.3.11 this week and got it running
> to see how I can adapt satb.ly to my needs.  I think I can make this
> work!  Those of you who have been around a few years and remember
> everything that was ever posted here may recall that my difficulty came
> from the fact that in barbershop notation, the second voice, not the
> top, carries the melody, and the three harmony parts often have
> syncopated or echoed lyrics that the lead does not have.
>
> Now I can have a main lyric section:
> MainWords = \lyrics {All parts sing these words __ }
>
> ... and use _ for spaces everywhere the harmony parts sing the same
> words:
> TenorWords = \lyrics { _ _ _ _ Echo these words }
> BariWords = \lyrics { _ _ _ _ Echo these words }
> etc.
>
> My question is about the satb.ly example and accompanying documentation
> about lyrics.  I can use that as a template to follow for my own bizarre
> needs, but it's hard and not clearly documented which elements should be
> written exactly as they appear in the example, which elements are
> arbitrary names that can be the same as the example or something else,
> and which elements must be changed from one song to the next (well,
> obviously notes and words are in the last group!)
>
> I have figured out most of it, but the one thing I'm still confused
> about is the { s1 } notation when setting up the positions of each
> part's lyric line.  Is there a special meaning for {s1}, or is that an
> arbitrary name that could just as easily be anything else?
>
> In my search through the list archives I encountered another
> barbershopper in Montana who is working on a simpler barbershop notation
> scheme... are there any other barbershoppers - or any choral group users
> - on this list?  I'd love to hear how you approach the sometimes
> shared/sometimes different lyric problem.
>
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> Peter B. Steiger
> Cheyenne, WY
>
>
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