>> Imagine a choir piece with three women voices, to be notated on two
>> staves to save vertical space. To increase readability in the
>> score it might make sense to position voices 1 and 2 in the upper
>> staff and voice 3 into the lower one. Suddenly the musical
>> structure changes, and it
On Fri 07 Mar 2025 at 06:34:45 (+), Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >> > If you have two staves, and a voice were to change staves, would
> >> > you expect the lyrics to leap about too?
> >>
> >> Actually yes :-) Can you imagine a situation where this shouldn't
> >> happen?
> >
> > You're asking me t
>> > If you have two staves, and a voice were to change staves, would
>> > you expect the lyrics to leap about too?
>>
>> Actually yes :-) Can you imagine a situation where this shouldn't
>> happen?
>
> You're asking me to imagine something that doesn't make sense to me,
> then to argue that this
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 08:00:37 (+), Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> >> However, if I use `alignAboveContext = "V1"` instead, it doesn't
> >> work, and I get the warning
> >>
> >> ```
> >> warning: alignAboveContext not found: V1
> >> ```
> >>
> >> Why?
> >
> > Does it make sense? If you have two st
>> In the Internals Reference, alignAboveContext only occurs under
>> staff-ish contexts, not voice-ish ones, §2.1.x.
>
> OK, but this only gives indirect hints. I'll try to improve the
> documentation, thanks.
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2620
Werner
>> However, if I use `alignAboveContext = "V1"` instead, it doesn't
>> work, and I get the warning
>>
>> ```
>> warning: alignAboveContext not found: V1
>> ```
>>
>> Why?
>
> Does it make sense? If you have two staves, and a voice were to
> change staves, would you expect the lyrics to leap about
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 04:06:59 (+), Werner LEMBERG wrote:
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\new Voice = "V1"
[ … ]
% alignAboveContext = "V1"
[ … ]
> which yields the attached image, correctly aligning the lyrics 'Above'
> above the staff. However, if I use `alignAboveContext = "V1"`
> instead, it doesn't work, and
