Re: Bug in lyrics placement in mensural music?

[Trevor Daniels]

Phil Holmes wrote Friday, September 28, 2012 9:40 AM

>> 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.
> 
> Thanks, Trevor.  The answer begs the question that it would appear 
> deliberate that this works wrongly, but it still seems to work wrongly by 
> default.  It would seem that a StaffGroup _should_ accept a MensuralStaff by 
> default?

That depends on whether the system start brace provided by StaffGroup
is used in mensural music.  I know nothing about ancient music so I've
no idea whether this is the case or not.

Trevor