Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>>> "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.
>
> Now you know why different clefs do exist to avoid ledger lines (gosh,
> do your singers create the sound of those notes really with the
> *mouth*?)

I do so not want to hear of any alternatives.

> To be serious: I suggest either an octavation line or really a clef
> change to "bass_8"

Actually, singers don't like such things.  It interferes with their
pitch sense.

I think the "Carmina Burana" has some piece for a bass or baritone
falsettist and it is written in $#!! bass clef, with oodles of ledger
lines.  No idea how anybody is going to figure out just where in the
scale he is currently singing.

-- 
David Kastrup