Re: is Score.LyricText really a bad syntax?

[James E. Bailey]

On 22.06.2009, at 19:17, Mark Polesky wrote:

In particular, spaces

must be used around the dot and the equals sign in commands like

@code{\override Score . LyricText #'font-size = #5} and before and

after the entire command.

Really? What's the risk of doing Score.LyricText? Non-spaced

context.grob dots are all over the docs; do we need to change

them?

http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Overview-of-modifying-properties.html

- Mark

I don't know where in the documentation this is, but Lyrics Explained (2.1.2) explains why this particular (i.e., LyricText) example is necessary.

Incidentally, just trying it shows that it's necessary:

\version "2.12.2"

Melody = \new Voice = melody { b a g b }

Words = \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \override Score . LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic These are the words }

badWords = \new Lyrics \lyricmode { \override Score.LyricText #'font-shape = #'italic These are the words }

\score { << \Melody \lyricsto melody \Words >> }

\score { << \Melody \lyricsto melody << \badWords >> >> }

James E. Bailey