"James Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Putting together some music for a choir I've just joined, and I'm having > trouble figuring out where the lyrics for the 2nd, 3rd, etc verses go. > Normally for songs I see music that just has the lyrics for the first verse > next to the notes, and then the rest of the words written out in a block > somewhere else on the page (This may be because normal to me == > traditional/folk music.) . How do you do those blocks? Is lilypond-book > going to be required for this?
It's not traditional in choral music. In a word: Don't. > 2. The lyrics seem to end up too close to the divider lines between bars in > some cases. I'm thinking about bar 5, where "man-" ends up too close to the > black line, and bar 6 for "night" does the same. Do I need to add space > manually? Or is this the way people expect printed lyrics to look? (I'm > really a fiddler and a piper, not a singer; this is my first experience with > really caring about having to read the words.) Or you could use ChoirStaff instead of StaffGroup. -- Arvid _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
