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Re: Mystery quirk in lyrics - only in the bass part
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Mystery quirk in lyrics - only in the bass part |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:56:09 +0200 |
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Larry Kent <address@hidden> writes:
> Thanks for the replies, David Kastrup, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik. The
> problem is fixed, and if you care to read how, keep reading; otherwise,
> thanks again and have a nice day.
>
> While trying to figure out how to create a "tiny example" that would
> duplicate my problem, which I was sure had to be happening because of the
> complicated layout, score block, incipit and choir staff markup etc etc, I
> found the problem, and it was very simple.
>
> When I was preparing this score with version 2.18 (from an original file
> that was in version 1.4), I had left the bass lyrics block with
> *textobassus=\lyrics{*
> rather than *textobassus=\lyricmode{*
>
> This was close enough that it compiled all right, and Frescobaldi did not
> flag it as an error, but it was enough to create the two little problems I
> mentioned originally....both are fixed now.
>
> And it took me less than 6 hrs.
Ugh.
We have shortcuts \chords, \lyrics, \figures, \drums. They are
documented sparingly if at all.
Check the output of
git grep '\\\(chords\|lyrics\|figures\|drums\)\b'
for the number of occurences which are definitely significant though not
large. When used erroneously, they may lead to material unexpectedly
ending up in unnamed contexts.
I think that \lyrics is the most likely candidate for trouble here.
Maybe we should obsolete it and save some other people 6 hours.
--
David Kastrup