Re: sunday school music

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Reinhold,

> The "centering" here is achieved by simply putting the common text  
> into the
> second stanza, which happens to be vertically centered. However, if  
> you have
> four stanzas, there is no way to center common text vertically. I  
> had that
> problem once with two stanzas, but have not found any solution to  
> it :-(

Maybe the attached (modified) snippet will help you find the answer  
you're looking for?
The insertion of the two braces has been left as an exercise to the  
reader...  ;-)

Best wishes,
Kieren.
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%%% BEGIN SNIPPET %%%

\version "2.11.32"

leftbrace = \markup { \override #'(font-encoding . fetaBraces)  
\lookup #"brace240" }
rightbrace = \markup { \rotate #180 \leftbrace }
dropLyrics = \override LyricText #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -5)
raiseLyrics = \revert LyricText #'extra-offset
skipFour = \repeat unfold 4 { \skip 8 }

lyricsA = \lyricmode { The first stanza has \dropLyrics the common  
words and \raiseLyrics then they're not. }
lyricsB = \lyricmode { The second stanza shares \skipFour before they  
change again. }
lyricsC = \lyricmode { In the third stanza, \skipFour notes are  
really boring. }
lyricsD = \lyricmode { In the final stanza, \skipFour all the rest  
stop. }

melody = \relative c' { c d e f g f e d c e d2 }

\score
{
        <<
                \new Voice = m \melody
                \new Lyrics \lyricsto m \lyricsA
                \new Lyrics \lyricsto m \lyricsB
                \new Lyrics \lyricsto m \lyricsC
                \new Lyrics \lyricsto m \lyricsD
        >>
}

%%% END SNIPPET %%%