Re: Collision of hyphen and barline

[Phil Holmes]

"Christopher Schlosser" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
news:address@hidden
> > I'm not top posting.
>
> %This is e.g. a problem for engraving a choral piece with barlines in 
> mensural
> style. Maybe this is a special case of bug #2061, but I wasn't sure.
>
>
> \version "2.14.2"
>
> \new StaffGroup <<
>
> \new Staff { r1 r}
>        %Collision of hyphen and barline
> \new Lyrics \lyricmode { hel1 -- lo1 }
>
> \new Staff { r1 r }
> > >

It's not 2061 - that was only introduced in 2.15.14.

That said, the normal way to set lyrics is with a ChoirStaff group, and if 
you do that, there's no bar line for the hyphen to hit.  Have you considered 
this?

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad