Re: Barcheck failure warnings for lyrics in parallel mode

[Galen Menzel]

On 8 Aug 2018, at 14:10, David Kastrup wrote:

> "Galen Menzel" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > So basically explicit bar markings and lyrics just don’t play 
> > nicely
> > together?
>
> And auto-length lyrics.  If you give the lyric syllables explicit
> durations and not use \lyricsto/\addlyrics but just set 
> associatedVoice
> and \lyricmode appropriately, you can write bar checks into the lyrics
> perfectly well.  Note that bar checks indicate that your lyrics _are_
> written to match a given rhythm at seminal points, so there is some
> motivation to either put none of the rhythm into the lyrics (and let
> them get autotimed using \addlyrics/lyricsto) or put all of it in and
> use explicit durations.

Ok, that makes sense. Looks like this is just a rough edge, where the 
requirements of auto-length lyrics are in conflict with the requirements 
of parallel notation. I’ll look into explicit duration or suppressing 
the warning.

Thanks again!

Best,

Galen