Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

[jurgen . lamsens]

Thanks a lot everyone for those smart responses. I've been reading and 
re-reading the thread multiple times ;-)

Must say, reading let stand writing code like this for such an easy part is not 
that easy for a beginner I'm afraid...

Best regards!
Jurgen L.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Albrecht" <address@hidden>
To: "David Wright" <address@hidden>
Cc: "jurgen lamsens" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:06:29 PM
Subject: Re: How write cross-staff slur (in combination with lyrics)

On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote:
> However, I just wanted to observe two things about the OP's original: 
> the words are much smaller, and the first three bars look as though 
> they are using proportional spacing.

No, they don’t. Proportional spacing is a very specific means for 
complicated situations in mostly ‘modern’ music, and what the example 
shows is just unnecessary loose spacing, less proficient by far than 
LilyPond’s solution.

> One of the things that I've noticed about LP is that by default the 
> lyrics are scaled up in size relative to the music, compared with many 
> publishers' scores, which can lead to a more irregular note spacing. 
> This isn't a criticism: it's easily "correctable" but I much prefer it 
> anyway because of my eyesight.

And legibility is the exact reason why LilyPond’s lyrics are larger than 
commonly used nowadays.

> Mind you, I'm not sure why a beginner's piano book has lyrics at all, 
> particularly placing them between the staves.

In order to make the connection to a tune the child knows, or to teach 
the actual song to sing it as well; also, thinking text is a good means 
to achieve more musical playing.

Yours, Simon