Dear list, Sometimes the alignment of lyrics and notes can be very tricky for _any_ music software. Lilypond does a good job in solving the problem below. I'd like to hear comments from users. For I know that there are different solutions.
Problem: How to cause the lyrics that belong to the tenor be in the same line as the lyrics for the soprano? One solution, that I've seen people do with programs like Finale is this: - Create invible notes for the soprano staff and then assign the lyrics to it. But, then the sound output can be affected. This aproach can be used in Lilypond, too. Another solution, which seems to be ideal to me, is shown is this example: %%%Begin Code %%% \version "2.11.13" melody = \relative c' { a4 b c d g1 } tenbass = \relative { a4 b c d \new Voice = "bs" { e4 e d e } } text = \lyricmode { Aaa Bee Cee Dee Ear } texalt = \lyricmode { \skip 1 good point here } \score { << \new Staff << \new Voice = "one" { \melody } >> \new Staff = bass << \clef bass \new Voice = "two" { \tenbass } \new Lyrics = firstline \with { alignAboveContext = bass } \lyricsto "one" \text \context Lyrics = firstline \lyricsto "bs" \texalt >> >> } %%%End code This solution looks simpler, but in version 2.10.2, the lyrics for the tenor become leftaligned (a bug?): %%Code \version "2.7.32" melody = \relative c' { a4 b c d g1 } tenbass = \relative { a4 b c d \new Voice = "bs" {\voiceTwo e4 e d e } } text = \lyricmode { Aaa Bee Cee Dee Eee } texalt = \lyricmode { \skip 1 good point here } \score{ << \new Staff << \new Voice = "one" { \melody } \new Lyrics = firstline \lyricsto "one" \text >> \new Staff << \clef bass \new Voice = "two" { \tenbass } \context Lyrics = firstline \lyricsto "bs" \texalt >> >> } %%End Interestingly, as I run the snippet above, I don't get from jEdit`s lilypond console this full warning message: [...] Layout output to `C:silverg.ps'... Converting to `C:silverg.pdf'... `gs -q -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS#595.28 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS#841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel#1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r1200 -sDEVICE#pdfwrite -sOutputFile#"C:silverg.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite -f "C:silverg.ps"' failed (1) C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/../share/lilypond/current/ly/init.ly:37:1: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here # (if (or (pair? toplevel-scores) output-empty-score-list) C:/Program Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/../share/lilypond/current/ly/init.ly:37:5: error: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting '=' #(if (or (pair? toplevel-scores) output-empty-score-list) programming error: Parsed object should be dead: static scm_unused_struct* Prob::mark_smob(scm_unused_struct*) continuing, cross fingers programming error: Parsed object should be dead: static scm_unused_struct* Context_def::mark_smob(scm_unused_struct*) continuing, cross fingers programming error: Parsed object should be dead: static scm_unused_struct* Grob::mark_smob(scm_unused_struct*) continuing, cross fingers error: failed files: "C:\\silverg\\leftedlyr2staves.ly" %%%%%% Have a good day! Eduardo Vieira ___________________________________________________________________________________ Nas suas férias, de um telefone fixo ou do celular, faz um 21. A Embratel tem tarifas muito baratas para você ligar para quem você gosta, contar como estão as férias e economizar. Faz um 21 e aproveite. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user