On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 11:43 -0500, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> >
> > The piece I am setting can be sung by a baritone or by a mezzo-
> > soprano.
> > In the score, therefore, there are 2 vocal staves, one for each of
> > the
> > alternative voices. The staves contain identical music apart from
> > an
> > octave diffence in pitch and different clefs.
> Aside: Have you thought about just having one staff, and putting the
> clef modifier (i.e., subscript 8) in parentheses?
That would be a possibility, I suppose, but as the piece was originally
for baritone, notated therefore in bass clef, I would prefer to keep
that notation intact.
> > It seems sensible to print the words only once, mid-way between the
> > 2
> > staves. But if the words are aligned to the notes in the upper
> > stave
> > they appear too high. If they are aligned to the music in the
> > lower
> > stave the result is more acceptable, although the words are perhaps
> > a
> > little lower than one would wish.
> You need to set the #'staff-affinity (and, optionally, adjust the
> spacing parameters). For example:
>
> \version "2.19.48"
> \language "english"
>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Lyrics
> \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-affinity = #CENTER
> \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.padding
> = #1.5
> }
> }
>
> \new StaffGroup <<
> \new Staff
> \new Voice = "upper" { \clef "bass" g2 g a1 g2 g a1 \bar "|." }
> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "upper" { Words just right! Words just right!
> }
> \new Staff = "lower" { \clef "bass" a,2 a, g,1 a,2 a, g,1 }
> >
> > >
> > >
> Hope that helps!
> Kieren.
Help? It certainly does. That seems to work perfectly. Nevertheless,
I'll experiment a bit with the 2 VerticalAxisGroup settings, to see if
I can understand the effect each of them has, for my greater
understanding!
Thank you so much for your quick reply and a complete solution.
David
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