Hi Catalin Try changing the \new StaffGroup statement to \new ChoirStaff.
This will restrict all the barlines to just the music staves and avoid all clashes with the lyrics. Trevor > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Catalin Francu > Sent: 23 October 2006 22:58 > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Lyrics collide with barlines > > > Hi, > > I have typeset over 100 pages of music with Lilypond 2.8.6 last month > and there's only one thing that I could not figure out how to do. > Every now and then, lyrics will collide with barlines. See for > example: > > http://catalin.francu.com/Music/colinde/ > > (some Romanian carols). Look at la_vitleem_colo_n_jos.ly and the > generated la_vitleem_colo_n_jos.pdf. You'll see the collisions right > from the first system. The documentation proposes a solution here: > > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.8/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vocal > -music.html#Vocal-music > > However, that doesn't work well for me. See the modified > la_vitleem_colo_n_jos2.ly and la_vitleem_colo_n_jos2.pdf in the same > folder. Two unwanted effects happen when I do what the manual says: > > - The bar lines now extend down, including the bass lyrics (before, > they ended on the bass staff) > - Some non-simple barlines (such as the repeat barline after measure > 18) appear chopped in pieces. > > Ideally, I'd like a way to tell Lilypond "I want at least two mm of > space between barlines and text". > > Other than that, big big kudos (I wish I only had one gripe with every > software package I used). > > Catalin > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
