Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 18 December 2012 20:19, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:

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Hey all,

Putting aside the impossibility of the attached exercise, you'll see that the lyrics stay shifted way down for the part of the attached example that moves to D major.

I can't imagine that anyone sightreading this would want to see the lyrics shifted down that much after the key change.  Is there a way to signal to the VerticalAxisGroup clumping Lyrics together that it should start a new vertical alignment section?  I can likely accomplish the same thing with \new Lyrics as well, but it'd be strange in the way I'm structuring the document.

Unless that type of thing appears heretic, in which case I'll just leave the lyrics as they are.

Cheers,
MS

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>From Gould:

"A line of text should be parallel to the stave for the length of the system, and not be placed on different levels to accommodate notes below the stave".

This refers to lyrics.


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Yes, I’d leave it where it is. You’re not going to be able to fit anything closer to that staff, and it would make the new lyrics look different when they weren’t (but if they are, it would be a fitting use of \new Lyrics).

In the real world, if you get your altos to sing a low D, where the lyrics are isn’t going to be the first thing on their mind ;-)

Vaughan

PS Congrats to the devs for being way ahead of Finale (2009 and probably later) with vertical lyric placement