Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

[Simon Albrecht]

On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote:
> However, I just wanted to observe two things about the OP's original: 
> the words are much smaller, and the first three bars look as though 
> they are using proportional spacing.

No, they don’t. Proportional spacing is a very specific means for 
complicated situations in mostly ‘modern’ music, and what the example 
shows is just unnecessary loose spacing, less proficient by far than 
LilyPond’s solution.

> One of the things that I've noticed about LP is that by default the 
> lyrics are scaled up in size relative to the music, compared with many 
> publishers' scores, which can lead to a more irregular note spacing. 
> This isn't a criticism: it's easily "correctable" but I much prefer it 
> anyway because of my eyesight.

And legibility is the exact reason why LilyPond’s lyrics are larger than 
commonly used nowadays.

> Mind you, I'm not sure why a beginner's piano book has lyrics at all, 
> particularly placing them between the staves.

In order to make the connection to a tune the child knows, or to teach 
the actual song to sing it as well; also, thinking text is a good means 
to achieve more musical playing.

Yours, Simon