Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

[Phil Holmes]

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Subject: Best practices in lyric typesetting


Hey all,

Putting aside the impossibility of the attached exercise, you'll see that 
the lyrics stay shifted way down for the part of the attached example that 
moves to D major.

I can't imagine that anyone sightreading this would want to see the lyrics 
shifted down that much after the key change.  Is there a way to signal to 
the VerticalAxisGroup clumping Lyrics together that it should start a new 
vertical alignment section?  I can likely accomplish the same thing with 
\new Lyrics as well, but it'd be strange in the way I'm structuring the 
document.

Unless that type of thing appears heretic, in which case I'll just leave the 
lyrics as they are.

Cheers,
MS





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> From Gould:

"A line of text should be parallel to the stave for the length of the 
system, and not be placed on different levels to accommodate notes below the 
stave".

This refers to lyrics.


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Phil Holmes