Re: Need assistance hammering a Hymn template together

[David Wright]

On Mon 16 Oct 2017 at 10:45:39 (-0600), Bruno Boyko wrote:

> 2. What would be considered "best practice" when dealing with hymns where
> the refrain is first, such as in "Lift High the Cross?"

It depends what appearance you want.

If the refrain takes an integral number of lines, just precede each
verse but the first with   \repeat unfold N " "   where N is the
number of syllables. LP will collapse the extra vertical space.

If the refrain doesn't, do you want a rectangle of white space
or not? You can always repeat the words if there are just a few.
Earlier printers would put lines of ditto marks; not fashionable
nowadays.

It looks as if there's an Amen in your example; the same applies
there, except you obviously can't repeat it in the earlier verses,
and you don't need fill with \repeat either.

Cheers,
David.