Re: lyric barcheck possible bug

[Erik Sandberg]

On 9/29/06, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> Erik Sandberg wrote:
> > On Friday 29 September 2006 02:38, Graham Percival wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This displays a barcheck error.  Is it defined whether it should or not?
> >>   I glanced through the docs but couldn't immediately find anything
> >> about lyrics and rests.
> >
> > You should currently view barchecks as something you place _before_ syllables.
> > With this way of viewing it, the barcheck before the third ah is naturally
> > aligned to the middle of the second bar.
> >
> > However, it might be bad to rely on this interpretation, because we may want
> > to change it later. I'd recommend you to only place barchecks where the
> > melody has notes immediately before and after the barline.
> >
> > One way to fix behaviour (and make it do what people expect) may be to make
> > lyricsto listen to barchecks in the melody, and align those to any matching
> > barchecks in the lyrics.
>
> Err... should I add this to the bug tracker or not?  I don't mind either
> way; I just want to get this backlog all dealt with, for any value of
> "dealt with".  (only about 10 bug reports to go!)

I view it as a 'undefined behaviour' thing; i.e., it's a situation
where lily's behaviour currently is undefined, but where it is
desirable to make the behaviour well-defined. So, I'd say it's
'enhancement' rather than 'bug'.

Erik