"Peter B. Steiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Singers, please take a look at it and tell me where it needs > improvement. Arvid, you mentioned working on a TTBB template; I would > especially like to see yours (meaning: steal all your good ideas to put > in mine).
I'm afraid it's at home and I'm at work at the moment; I'll try to remember posting it, but please remind me if I seem to have forgotten, OK? I don't have 2.3 installed, but as far as I remember you'll get a problem with using spaces where there's no music: lines of music with no separate lyrics on them will still have space allocated for those lyrics.[1] "\skip"s will work, but I'm not sure how practical they are when using \lyricsto. In the (not unusual) case of rather few "exeptional lyrics"[2], I've had luck doing things without \lyricsto, marking the rythm in the lyrics like this (2.2-style): tiwords = \lyrics { \skip4*5 It's4 real -- ly fine!1 } Quite frankly, if the exeptional lyrics are too many for this to be practical, the music probably belongs on one staff per voice with all the lyrics for a voice underneath its staff. (The music must be rather simple and the exeptions few for 4-voice vocal music to be readable from 2 staves, in my humble opinion as a tenor (and tenors have it easy!)) I have some examples, some better than others, on <http://regina.uio.no/~arvidg/noter.html>, unfortunately without source at the moment, but I'll try and remember to put the source out there too. Anyway, <http://regina.uio.no/~arvidg/reger-abschied.pdf> shows the spacing problem I mentioned (that is, how the vertical spacing goes wrong when using spaces instead of skips, but it's typeset with an old version, too, so that may be a contributing factor). <http://regina.uio.no/~arvidg/dunkom.pdf> shows the same problem solved with \skip. [1] I could be wrong, but this has been a problem in the past for me with versions from at least 1.6 to 2.2. [2] OK, so I invented that term right now. You'll probably know what I mean. -- Arvid _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user