Re: Should I stop using barchecks in lyrics?

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> Colin Tennyson wrote Tuesday, December 31, 2013 2:13 PM
>
>> The problem is: the Lilypond music interpreter issues many erroneous
>> barcheck warnings for the lyrics sections.
>
>> I noticed a pattern in the erroneous-barcheck-in-lyrics warnings. They occur
>> when at the corresponding position in the staff a tie extends from one bar
>> to the next.
>> (One other case: an erroneous-barcheck-warning-in-the-lyrics at a position
>> where there are rests both left and right of that bar line.)
>
> This is a bug (IMO), first noticed in 2006, and still outstanding:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=99
>
> If you'd like to use bar checks in lyrics simply remove any that give
> erroneous warnings (after checking they are erroneous of course).
> Although I gave up using them as it is easy to check lyric placement
> by inspecting the score.

Or don't use \addlyrics/\lyricsto but rather time your lyrics
explicitly.  That's also a lot more robust against juggling Voices,
adding stanzas and so on.

-- 
David Kastrup