Re: Lyrics collide with barlines

[Catalin Francu]

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestions. ChoirStaff sounds like a more sensible
choice, and it explains why lyrics don't try by default to avoid
barlines. All the Romanian scores I've seen so far use top-to-bottom
barlines, and I would have liked to use the same style, but if our
conductor approves :) I'll switch to ChoirStaff.

As for \whiteout, that's great to know in general, but I haven't found
an equivalent for lyrics.

Thanks,
Catalin

On 10/24/06, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Catalin
>
> Try changing the \new StaffGroup statement to \new ChoirStaff.
>
> This will restrict all the barlines to just the music staves and avoid all 
> clashes with the lyrics.
>
> Trevor
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> > Catalin Francu
> > Sent: 23 October 2006 22:58
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Lyrics collide with barlines
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have typeset over 100 pages of music with Lilypond 2.8.6 last month
> > and there's only one thing that I could not figure out how to do.
> > Every now and then, lyrics will collide with barlines. See for
> > example:
> >
> > http://catalin.francu.com/Music/colinde/
> >
> > (some Romanian carols). Look at la_vitleem_colo_n_jos.ly and the
> > generated la_vitleem_colo_n_jos.pdf. You'll see the collisions right
> > from the first system. The documentation proposes a solution here:
> >
> > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vocal
> > -music.html#Vocal-music
> >
> > However, that doesn't work well for me. See the modified
> > la_vitleem_colo_n_jos2.ly and la_vitleem_colo_n_jos2.pdf in the same
> > folder. Two unwanted effects happen when I do what the manual says:
> >
> > - The bar lines now extend down, including the bass lyrics (before,
> > they ended on the bass staff)
> > - Some non-simple barlines (such as the repeat barline after measure
> > 18) appear chopped in pieces.
> >
> > Ideally, I'd like a way to tell Lilypond "I want at least two mm of
> > space between barlines and text".
> >
> > Other than that, big big kudos (I wish I only had one gripe with every
> > software package I used).
> >
> > Catalin
> >
> >
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