Re: barline question

[Karl Hammar]

> Hi :)
> 
> In case you didn't read my original post:
> 
> I am creating a score for a piece of H. Schütz with Lilypond 2.2.5 
> (with Fink on Mac). When setting this old kind of music it is often 
> better to not use a standard Choirstaff, but to use the bar lines only 
> between the bars. As far as I know this is quite common in late 
> renaissance and early baroque vocal music.
> 
> So I used a StaffGroup and set the Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t.
> Since I needed repeat signs, I had to be able to put the transparency 
> off to avoid losing the repeat signs themselves.
> The result: I have a part that shows the bar lines between the staves 
> only, except for the repeat signs.
> One detail: for the repeat signs I used \bar ":|" instead of \repeat 
> volta. It doesn't seem to make a difference for this problem though.
> 
> One problem remains: the lyrics are running into the bar lines. In the 
> documentation I found that adding the Bar_engraver to the Lyrics 
> context would avoid this. This works, but it adds barlines below the 
> last staff and prints the repeat sign : -- : on the Lyrics height. 
> Trying to avoid that, I used \override BarLine #'transparent = ##t, but 
> this leaves a hole in the vertical repeat bar line.
> 
> Any idea how to be able to avoid lyric-bar line-collisions without 
> having to nudge each lyric into the right position?
> 
> Thanks in advance :)
> 
> greets
> 
> Maurits

If you use

 \set Score.defaultBarType = ""

as in the attached example you don't need to do all the

 \once \override Staff.BarLine #'transparent = ##t

And if you add the 

 \override SpanBar #'glyph = #"|"

you don't get the "|:" in the span bar.

I have no solution for the lyrics problem.
How do you "nudge" the lyrics?

===

My personal preference is to use GroupStaff and no bar lines alt.

 \set Score.defaultBarType = ":"

I find the span bar / mensurstrich ugly and of not that much help
since a \breve etc. can span over the span bar and in that way the
singer is fooled by the span bar. And it gets in the way of the
lyrics.

Regards,
/Karl

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