"Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: > Peter Teeson wrote Saturday, February 28, 2015 6:59 PM > >> I removed the bar checks in the lyrics and all is OK. >> (I put them in because Learning suggested it…) > > Yes, sorry about that. If that section in the > Learning Manual is to be retained I think it needs to > have an explanation and a warning added, saying that > the check for the occurrence of a barline is made at > the start of the syllable _following_ the barcheck. > So if a bar starts with a rest the first syllable in > that bar does not immediately follow the barline, > and a barcheck should not be placed before it, as > there is no barline there. > > I'll see if I can draft an amendment ...
My own take on that is that getting bar checks to do anything reasonably and consistently useful in associated lyrics is pretty hard. So one should probably leave them off in any non-trivial case: those may change behavior in some future version. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
