Re: Lyrics placement

[Guy Stalnaker]

Thanks Trevor -- I had to completely rework how the score was described 
and, and you said, jettison /addlyrics. The template will be different 
now, but the lyrics are indeed above the staff where I want them to be. 
The issue was with using << >> in a nested way to get SopranoOne and 
SopranoTwo music on the same stave with lyrics for one above and lyrics 
for the other below:

\context Staff = "soprano" <<
  <<
    \context Voice = "sopranoVoiceOne" {
      \sopranoVoiceOne
      } % Voice
    \lyricsto "sopranoVoiceOne"
      \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "soprano" } \lyricmode {
      \verseSopranoVoiceOne
    } % Lyrics
  >> %SopOne
  <<
    \context Voice = "sopranoVoiceTwo" {
      \sopranoVoiceTwo
      } % Voice
    \lyricsto "sopranoVoiceTwo" \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
      \verseSopranoVoiceTwo
      } % Lyrics 1
  >> % SopTwo
>>

That bit works.

Guy

On 10/29/2012 03:27 AM, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Guy Stalnaker wrote Monday, October 29, 2012 2:37 AM
>
>
> > Hello everyone -- my first question to this list.
>
> Hi, welcome!
>
> > I have looked over the Learning Guide and the Notation Reference for
> > help in telling Lilypond to put S1 lyrics above the staff. Yet I'm
> > stymied by differences in terminology. The Learning Guide uses
> > "/addlyrics" in its examples (as does my file) while the Notation
> > Reference uses "/new lyrics /lyricsto". When the Notatation Reference
> > shows examples on how to modify lyric placement, it shows two different
> > examples that I cannot map to my use of /addlyrics. I know it's a
> > context thing, but I cannot grok what's supposed to happen.
>
> \addlyrics is useful for simple situations but it does not have the
> flexibility available when the lyrics context is specified explicitly.
> In particular \addlyrics cannot be used if the vertical placement
> of the lyrics needs to be changed, as the lyrics context needs
> to be explicitly exposed to do this.
>
> The method to use is outlined in
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#placing-lyrics-vertically
>
> [snip score]
>
> > This works perfectly with lyrics for sopranoVoiceOne and places them
> > below the staff aligned with the notes. How to I get the lyrics above
> > the staf if I use /addlyrics? I've tried futzing with modifying
> > /addlyrics to /new lyrics, etc. but that creates errors on compiling.
>
> \new Lyrics is definitely required (with a capital L) as the examples show.
> Try this again, and come back to the list with more specifics of the
> compilation errors, if they persist.
>
> Trevor
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