Re: Lyrics placement

[Trevor Daniels]

Guy Stalnaker wrote Monday, October 29, 2012 2:37 AM


> Hello everyone -- my first question to this list.

Hi, welcome!

> I have looked over the Learning Guide and the Notation Reference for 
> help in telling Lilypond to put S1 lyrics above the staff. Yet I'm 
> stymied by differences in terminology. The Learning Guide uses 
> "/addlyrics" in its examples (as does my file) while the Notation 
> Reference uses "/new lyrics /lyricsto". When the Notatation Reference 
> shows examples on how to modify lyric placement, it shows two different 
> examples that I cannot map to my use of /addlyrics. I know it's a 
> context thing, but I cannot grok what's supposed to happen.

\addlyrics is useful for simple situations but it does not have the
flexibility available when the lyrics context is specified explicitly.
In particular \addlyrics cannot be used if the vertical placement
of the lyrics needs to be changed, as the lyrics context needs
to be explicitly exposed to do this.

The method to use is outlined in
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#placing-lyrics-vertically

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> This works perfectly with lyrics for sopranoVoiceOne and places them 
> below the staff aligned with the notes. How to I get the lyrics above 
> the staf if I use /addlyrics? I've tried futzing with modifying 
> /addlyrics to /new lyrics, etc. but that creates errors on compiling.

\new Lyrics is definitely required (with a capital L) as the examples show.
Try this again, and come back to the list with more specifics of the
compilation errors, if they persist.

Trevor