Re: Best practices in lyric typesetting

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On 18 déc. 2012, at 10:19, "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:

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> Subject: Best practices in lyric typesetting
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> 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:
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> "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.
> 


I'll tell that to my singers as they tar and feather me.

Cheers,
MS