[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffery B. Rancier) writes:
> I've been fiddling with the satb.ly template, trying to create a
> barbershop quartet template.
...which is not very different from a ttbb male choir template, so
I'll bite.
> My question: Why can I get away with specifying the time signature
> once in the first staff, and have it default to the same in the
> lower staff, but not have the key signature behave the same way.
I wouldn't know.
> It may seem a silly question, but I never played anything that has
> diffent keys in a connected staff. As such:
Me neither, and I *have* sung stuff that has different time signatures
in different staffs ;)
But I'll comment a bit more:
> \score { \notes
> \context StaffGroup <<
You probably want \context ChoirStaff here (and so does satb.ly; using
StaffGroup is a bug, IMHO).
> \property Score.automaticMelismata = ##t
Some day, I wish someone could explain to me what this does, 'cuz I
surely don't understand it.
> \context Lyrics = tenorLyrs { }
> \context Staff = treble { \key ef \major \time 2/2 }
you might want to call your context "tenors" or something, but more
importantly you probably want to say \clef "treble_8".
> \context Lyrics = leadLyrs { }
> \context Lyrics = bariLyrs { }
> \context Staff = bass {\clef bass \key ef \major }
...and you don't want to repeat \key ef \major, so get that out into a
global section that you define (earlier in the file) thus:
global = \notes { \key ef \major \time 2/2 } % and possibly more common stuff
You can reference that in your line above, like this
\context Staff = bass { \clef bass \global }
(and likewise for the tenor staff)
> \context Lyrics = bassLyrs { }
>
> \addlyrics
> \context Staff = treble \context Voice = VA { \voiceOne \tenorMusic }
> \context Lyrics = tenorLyrs { \tenorWords}
> [...]
>
> And secondly, is that the correct place(s) to put the \key & \time
> keywords?
Inside a global section, see above.
> Thirdly, the original template defined:
>
> ,----
> | \context Lyrics = tenorLyrs { }
> `----
>
> as
>
> ,----
> | \context Lyrics = tenorLyrs { s1 }
> `----
>
> What's the significance of that term?
I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that it's an artefact of a
workaround of an old bug, but I wouldn't know.
--
Arvid
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