Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

[Phil Holmes]

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On 18 déc. 2012, at 10:19, "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:

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> Hey all,
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> 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:
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> "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.


I'll tell that to my singers as they tar and feather me.

Cheers,
MS

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As you probably know, I'm only a singer (and currently do a _lot_ of 
singing - 8 sets of music on the go last week).  I'm in 2 minds about 
breaking lyrics - the problem is that, if you do, the movement of your eyes 
as you try to follow them has to change.  We're used to this with notes, but 
it would be rather like moving a stave for an instrumentalist. I think I'd 
prefer them on the same level, even with the version you showed.

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Phil Holmes