Re: lyrics not quite lining up

[Mats Bengtsson]

Your mail program managed to destroy the attachment
(for some reason, the file was handled like a plain text
file, the content type should be application/pdf or
application/octet-stream).

Anyway, it seems that you didn't read all of
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyrics-bar.ly
namely that you should add the Bar_engraver to the LyricsVoice context
to avoid collisions with the bar lines. This is done with:

\score{
  ...
  \paper{
    \translator {
      \LyricsVoiceContext
      \consists "Bar_engraver"
    }
  }
}

    /Mats

Russ Ross wrote:
> > Russ Ross wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using Lilypond 2.0.1 and having trouble getting lyrics to line
> > > up properly.  They are finding the right notes, but they tend to be
> > > a bit off to the left or right.  They end up overlapping bar lines
> > > and melisma lines and they are a bit hard to follow in some places.
> > > Is this a setup error of some kind?  I'm using default options
> > > everywhere on a Mandrake 9.2 setup.  It's pretty consistent, so
> > > doing manual overrides seems overkill (it would have to happen on
> > > every lyric).
> >
> > Please send a small example file that illustrates the problems.
>
>
> I've attached one page of PDF output from a larger score.  Some of
> the problems go away when I try to extract it to a smaller example.
> Here's the relevant input for the first line of lyrics in the
> example (the initial skip finishes on the page I provided):
>
> \context Lyrics = sopranoLyrics \lyrics {
>
>   \skip1*12/8*16
>   Kommt,8*8 __ ihr8 Toch*2 -- ter,8 |
>   helft4 mir8 kla8*8 -- gen8 |
>
>   ...
>
> when I add the following:
>
>   \property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'alignment = #-1
>
> the first "Kommt," moves into the right place but it pushes the
> "ter," at the end of that measure even further into the barline.
> This also pushes "helft" in the next measure to the right making it
> look wrong.
>
> The melisma after "Kommt," collides with the comma and the ends of
> measures overlap the barlines quite often.
>
> This is pretty typical of what I'm seeing.  If you'd like more
> source input to go with it let me know.
>
>
> > Also, please take a look at the examples
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyric-align.ly 
> >
> > and
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/input/regression/out-www/collated-files.html#lyrics-bar.ly
> > to see if they give answer to some of your questions.
>
>
> That was helpful.  That's where I found the alignment property above
> (which helped) but I'm still not quite there.
>
> <snip--still digesting the rest>
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Russ