Re: alignAboveContext problems together with \lyricsto

[Eduardo Vieira]

Thank you very very much! This solution made me much more enthused about
Lilypond's capabilities.
I thought I'd have to resort to hiding notes or something. Your solution is
much easier.

Eduardo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mats Bengtsson" <address@hidden>
To: "Eduardo Vieira" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: alignAboveContext problems together with \lyricsto


> Eduardo Vieira wrote:
>
> >Yes it is a great feature. I just used it tonight in transcribing a song.
By
> >the way, I still have a problem with the setting of the lyrics, and for
this
> >reason I attached its file.
> >Alright, I managed to put the lyrics of the bass above the clef in the
> >refrain. But I couldn't force it to go further up:
> >The 3rd system (measure 7) has these lyrics settings:
> >The four stanzas        The refrain:
> >(...) His might.
> >(...) for you                            Trust in the One (...)
> >(...) to gain.                [I would like to put the words of the bass
on
> >this line, more or less]
> >(...) the end.
> >Bass words ------------->  Trust in the One
> >
> >I guess different lyrics contexts can't overlap, so what should I do? I
> >tried Lyrics.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent, but it didn't help.
> >
> >
> The easiest trick is to simply use the same lyrics context twice.
>
> If you replace your \score section with the following, you will
> get the bass words of the refrain exactly on the same line
> (since it's the same Lyrics context) as the third verse.
>
> \score {
>     \context ChoirStaff
>     { <<     \staffSoprano
>
>         \context Lyrics = "firstline" { \lyricsto "melodySop" \verseI }
>
>         \context Lyrics = "secondline" { \lyricsto "melodySop" \verseII }
>
>         \context Lyrics = "thirdline" { \lyricsto "melodySop" \verseIII }
>
>         \context Lyrics = "fourthline" { \lyricsto "melodySop"
\verseIIII }
>
>         \staffTenorSaxophone
>
>         \context Lyrics = "thirdline" { \lyricsto "baixo" \basi }
>         \context Lyrics = "thirdline" { \lyricsto "chrd"  \tebai }
>         \context Lyrics = "thirdline" { \lyricsto "baixoii"  \basii }
>         \context Lyrics = "thirdline" { \lyricsto "chrdii"  \tebaii }
>
>     >>
>
>     }
>
>     \midi {
>     }
>
>     \layout  {
>        ...
>     }
> }
>
>
> Note that I removed some unnecessary \lyricsmode directives.
>
>   /Mats
>