Re: Bug in spacing of lyrics in polyphonic context

[Erik Sandberg]

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 03.34, P Scott Horne wrote:
> In the old days of version 1.6.8, we wrote polyphony this way:
>
>       <{c d e}\\{e f g}>
>
> Now the notation is
>
>       <<{c d e}\\{e f g}>>
>
> There seems to be a bug in the engraving of lyrics set against a staff that
> breaks into polyphony with the new notation of double chevrons.  In version
> 1.6.8, the horizontal spacing was correct; in version 2.2.5, it is not.
> Syllables appear much too far to the right of the notes against which they
> should be aligned.
>
> This is how I set up the score:
>
>       \score {
>        <<
>         \addlyrics
>         \context Staff = melody
>         {
>            [...]
>         }
>            \lyrics \context Lyrics <<
>              \context Lyrics = "text1" {
>                \set stanza = "1."
>                \textA }
>              \context Lyrics = "text2" {
>                \set stanza = "2."
>                \textB }
>
>         [other staves, &c]
>
> If necessary, I'll prepare a simple example that can also serve as a
> regression test.

Please do. Be aware that \addlyrics is deprecated, we recommend you to use the 
new \lyricsto instead.

Erik