Colin Tennyson wrote > Following up on my previous post: > > Is it good practice to put bar checks inside \lyricsmode { ... } ? > Dormend__a_minor.ly > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n156747/Dormend__a_minor.ly> > > In the source I inserted the pipe-symbol for bar check both in the note > entries and in the lyrics entries. > > Of course I noticed the compiler warnings about failed bar checks in the > lyrics. > But the lyrics were lining up just fine, and I couldn't see any pattern in > the "errors"; they seemed random, so I ignored them. > (I opened the 'fonts and colors' in the preferences, and I changed the > color of 'error lines' to a light shade of grey). > > Is it better to not use the pipe symbol in the lyrics? > > Or is there a way to get the lyrics to line up correctly _and_ have the > compiler not issue bar check errors?
Hi Colin, Yes you *can* do that. No problem. See here: ___ \lyricmode { \time 2/4 Twin -- kle | Twin -- kle | } _____ http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/bars#bar-and-bar-number-checks ----- composer | sound designer LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Bar-checks-tp156747p156750.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user