Re: Bug in lyrics placement in mensural music?

[Trevor Daniels]

Phil Holmes wrote Thursday, September 27, 2012 5:02 PM


> The code below produces the image attached.  As can be seen, using a 
> StaffGroup with mensural staves places the lyrics above the top stave, and I 
> can't find an over-ride that gets them in the proper place.  I _think_ this 
> must be a bug, but wondering if anyone knows better?

No, it's not a bug.  The problem is not with the lyrics but with
MensuralStaff, which is not accepted by StaffGroup, so they
both get pushed to the bottom.

Try:

\new StaffGroup \with { \accepts MensuralStaff } {
  <<
    \new MensuralStaff
    {
      \new MensuralVoice = melody \relative c'' { c4 c c c }
    }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto melody \lyricmode { Lyrics can contain markup }

    \new MensuralStaff
    {
      \new MensuralVoice = lower \relative c'' { c4 c c c }
    }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto lower \lyricmode { Some lower words here }
  >>
}

Trevor