Re: Lyrics of a Voice above the Staff of the Voice

[Mats Bengtsson]

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> The contexts are normally printed in the order in which they are 
> defined, so simply moving the \new Lyrics command for the sopranos so 
> it comes before the \new Staff command for the joint soprano/alto 
> staff should do it.  See the SATB vocal score template in the Notation 
> Reference section A.4.1.
Trevor, your answer doesn't mention the fact that you cannot use 
\lyricsto before the corresponding Voice
has been defined. However, your're right that the SATB templates show 
different solutions to work around
this problem. I searched the rest of the manual and the only place I can 
find this issue mentioned is in
2.1.1 Entering Lyrics, subsection "Lyrics and variables", which 
describes one solution, but not the
one using alignAboveContext, which has been mentioned by the other 
answers in this thread.
I know that the Vocal music chapter is being revised right now, so 
perhaps it will appear soon.

   /Mats


> Trevor
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Waniek" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 1:47 AM
> Subject: Lyrics of a Voice above the Staff of the Voice
>
>
> > Hello together,
> > I'm working on a sheet where the lyrics of the Soprano are set above 
> > its staff
> > because the staff is shared with the Alto which has lyrics differing 
> > from those
> > of the Soprano at some positions (which I read by using \skip).
> > As far as I have 4 stanzas, using markups is not a usable workaround.
> > Recently I got to:
> > \override LyricText #'extra-offset = #'(0 . 20)
> > But this leaves the hyphens below the Staff and only moves the text 
> > into other
> > page items.
> >
> > So the question is:
> >
> > How do I get the lyrics above the staff of the voice they are 
> > assigned to by
> > \lyricsto?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Greetings
> > Robert Waniek
> >
> >
> >
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