Re: Bar checks

[SoundsFromSound]

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



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