Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

[Garrett McGilvray]

Hi Folks. I thank you all for your continued help.

Thomas Morley-2 wrote
> don't put \new Lyrics _into_ the Staff.


This one line showed me the essence of my error, so I am able to work from 
there. Now that I look at it, it does look like a newbie error, but I just 
wasn't seeing it before.

Eluze wrote:
> I'm not sure, but I guess Garrett wants the lyrics in a sequential line

What I'm trying to deal with is the fact that the number of lines in the verses 
and the number of lines in the chorus very often do not match. See for example 
the attached image of where the verses and chorus meet in a particularly 
well-known hymn:

You see that the chorus line there is not aligned with any of the verse lines, 
but rather both sides are centered according to the number of lines in their 
own section. I'm imagining some way to explicitly end a lyric context so that 
it won't the affect the spacing of a subsequent context when on the same line. 
I'm really just trying to figure out what is the best way to handle the 
verse/chorus transition. I expect I am going to encounter this kind of thing 
often since a lot of what I do are hymns.

My current project is just a simple arrangement of Silver Bells for a Christmas 
event later this year, and I've used one of the methods suggested here (the 
\set associatedVoice) and some heavy-handed forcing of lyric order. The current 
solution is not too bad. I'll send my file in case any one wants to look at it 
to see if you can think of a better way (but only if you want to). Please 
excuse the fact that my music training is not in composition :(

Silver Bells.ly
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