Re: How do you handle lyrics for 2nd, 3rd, etc verses to a song?

[Mats Bengtsson]

James Moore wrote:
> I'm brand-new LiliPond user - it's great!  Very easy to learn, too. 
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1.  Putting together some music for a choir I've just joined, and I'm having
> trouble figuring out where the lyrics for the 2nd, 3rd, etc verses go.
> Normally for songs I see music that just has the lyrics for the first verse
> next to the notes, and then the rest of the words written out in a block
> somewhere else on the page (This may be because normal to me ==
> traditional/folk music.)  .  How do you do those blocks?  Is lilypond-book
> going to be required for this? 

Yes, lilypond-book provides the best solution for that. However, from my
experience singing in a choir, it's much more difficult to read the
music typeset this way than when the lyrics of all verses is right below
the music.

> 2.  The lyrics seem to end up too close to the divider lines between bars in
> some cases.  I'm thinking about bar 5, where "man-" ends up too close to the
> black line, and bar 6 for "night" does the same.  Do I need to add space
> manually?  Or is this the way people expect printed lyrics to look?  (I'm
> really a fiddler and a piper, not a singer; this is my first experience with
> really caring about having to read the words.)

Take a look at the example called "lyrics-bar.ly" in the
Regression Tests document (in spite of its name, this document
is an invaluable source of examples).

   /Mats