Re: Mystery quirk in lyrics - only in the bass part

[David Kastrup]

Larry Kent <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for the replies, David Kastrup, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik.  The
> problem is fixed, and if you care to read how, keep reading; otherwise,
> thanks again and have a nice day.
>
> While trying to figure out how to create a "tiny example" that would
> duplicate my problem, which I was sure had to be happening because of the
> complicated layout, score block, incipit and choir staff markup etc etc, I
> found the problem, and it was very simple.
>
> When I was preparing this score with version 2.18 (from an original file
> that was in version 1.4), I had left the bass lyrics block with
> *textobassus=\lyrics{*
> rather than  *textobassus=\lyricmode{*
>
> This was close enough that it compiled all right, and Frescobaldi did not
> flag it as an error, but it was enough to create the two little problems I
> mentioned originally....both are fixed now.
>
> And it took me less than 6 hrs.

Ugh.

We have shortcuts \chords, \lyrics, \figures, \drums.  They are
documented sparingly if at all.

Check the output of

git grep '\\\(chords\|lyrics\|figures\|drums\)\b'

for the number of occurences which are definitely significant though not
large.  When used erroneously, they may lead to material unexpectedly
ending up in unnamed contexts.

I think that \lyrics is the most likely candidate for trouble here.
Maybe we should obsolete it and save some other people 6 hours.

-- 
David Kastrup