I am working on a piece of choir music. It consists of two parts, the
first of which is written on one staff, and the second two staves. The
upper staff in part two is a continuation of the staff in part one. All
the staves are accompanied with lyrics. My wish is that this lyrics
should be written below its respective staff. However, whatever I do,
the lyrics for the lower staff in part two, which I denote C, is written
above the staff, hence directly below the lyrics for the upper staff
(B). I suspect there should be a simple solution for this, and in the
handbook they say that the lyrics is normally written below the staff.
To get it above the staff you would have to do some overrides.
In the code you can see the commented lines, which are part of all the
tries I have done, but nothing seems to help. To me it almost looks as
if the behaviour is hard coded, just because of putting the lyrics
between the staves is the normal. After an experience like this I feel
strengthened in a thought, grown in my head, that LilyPond will never
ever be a tool for everybody. It is too complicated and inconsistent to
be used by anybody else than the absolute top expert. Which is a pity,
as it produces an excellent result.
This is the result of my efforts so far:
\version "2.18.2"
\paper { ragged-right = ##t }
mA = \relative c' { c4 d e f }
mB = \relative c'' { g4 a b c }
mC = \relative c' { c'4 b a8 g f4 }
mAB = \relative c' { c4 d e f g4 a b c }
tA = \lyricmode { A B C D }
tB = \lyricmode { E F G H }
tC = \lyricmode { i j k l m }
tAB = \lyricmode { A B C D E F G H }
xA = { s1*1 \break }
xB = { s1*1 }
xC = { s1*1 }
\score {
\new ChoirStaff
<<
\new Staff = "sAB" {
<<
\new Voice = "vAB" { \mAB }
{
\new Voice = "vA" { \xA }
<<
\new Voice = "vB" { \xB }
\new Staff = "sC" {
\new Voice = "vC" { \mC }
}
>>
}
>>
}
\new Lyrics = "lAB" \lyricsto "vAB" { \tAB }
\new Lyrics = "lC" \with {
% alignBelowContext = #"sC"
% \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-affinity = #UP
}
{ \lyricsto "vC" { \tC } }
>>
\layout { indent = #0 }
}
/which produces this:/
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/Kaj
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