Re: bar line through text in Mensurstriche layout

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Klaus Föhl" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 9:02 PM
Subject: bar line through text in Mensurstriche layout


> Hello,
>
> With lyrics and ChoirStaff a long word may overlap into an adjacent bar
> and this looks visually ok. Now I want to set a piece with Mensurstriche
> which essentially is StaffGroup and in some tightly spaced staff lines
> the overlapping words have the bar line cutting through them.
>
> Is there an alignment option that keeps the lyrics (and maybe the --  
> dashes)
> contained within the horizontal space of the bar?
>
> When this does not happen too often, one might fix each spot individually.
> What is the best way for such a manual workaround?
>
> I'm using version 2.12.3
>
> Best regards
>
> Klaus
>
> P.S. My first posting here...

Have a look at 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Specific-uses-of-lyrics#Spacing-out-syllables

You might also find that the latest development version does what you want 
automatically.

--
Phil Holmes