On 2022-03-09 04:51, Trevor wrote:
Hi Colin, you wrote 08/03/2022 00:39:10:
I've just discovered Trevor Daniels' satb.ly system, and huge kudos
to him! I've tweaked a bit by adding \consists Merge_rests_engraver
to a Layout variable, but I'm wrestling the lyrics a bit. By default,
they come out aligned above context; how can I get them below?
Thanks for the kudos! When I ran a choir I used satb.ly for pretty
well all the music we used.
But I don't understand your difficulty - the lyrics are aligned below
their staff by default, except when two voices are combined on one
staff, see the examples at
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/learning/satb-template .
Could you please post an example showing your problem.
Good morning, Trevor
It's the two voices/one staff case which gives the problem. I don't know
if it's a left-pondian thing, but it seems generally to be the case over
here, that the lyrics are shown below a combined staff. I think I can
get the effect by assigning lyrics to the lower of the two voices. I was
nearly through a messy import from Finale when I found your template, so
the combined notes were coming in with notes in the upper voice and
skips in the lower. That meant lyrics had to be aligned to the upper
voice only. I was hoping for a simple switch. but ended up simply adding
the missing notes to the lower voices. Now that I know a bit more about
it, I think stab.ly will become my tool of choice!
Cheers,
Colin
