Re: NR 2.1 Vocal music

[James Bailey]

So, I was reading through the changes to vocal music, and I had an epiphany. 
The current solution for lyrics independent of notes is predicated on the idea 
that the lyrics should be attached to some voice. Since \lyricmode just tells 
lilypond that the entry will be text rather than notes, why not simply use that 
instead of the DevNull context, and explicitly state the rhtyhms for the 
lyrics. The rhythms are entered anyway because of the lyricrhythm tag, so the 
user will have to enter rhythms at some point. I think it makes for a much more 
elegant solution. Consider:

voice = {
 c''2 c''
 d''1
}

lyr = \lyricmode { I4 like2 my cat!2. }

 <<
 \new Staff \voice
 \new Lyrics \lyr
 \new Staff { c'8 c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' }
 >>

It has the disadvantage of having to explicitly enter the rhtyhm for all of the 
lyrics, not just the tagged part, but it eliminates the need for the DevNull 
context. Bad idea? Good idea?
One other disadvantage, it also has the lyrics left-aligned, rather than center 
aligned. But since they are being placed independent of note-heads, that's 
likely to not be very visible.