Re: Allow LyricText/SpanBar overlapping

[Trevor Daniels]

Simon, you wrote  Monday, August 24, 2015 8:27 PM

> following 19th century practice, I am using StaffGroup for choir scores. 
> When there are longer syllables at the end of a measure, they avoid to 
> overlap with the span bar, which costs horizontal space. I’d prefer this 
> to be turned off, but how? I might conduct a lengthy and imprecise 
> search over the manuals, but maybe someone can help out?

Sorry to be late picking this up.  I think this might do it:

\layout { 
  \context {
    \Lyrics \remove Pure_from_neighbor_engraver
    \override LyricText #'whiteout = ##t 
  }
}

Trevor