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7.3 Vocal music

Since LilyPond input files are text, there are two issues to consider when working with vocal music:

There are a few different ways to define lyrics; we shall begin by examining the simplest method, and gradually increase complexity.

Commonly tweaked properties

Checking to make sure that text scripts and lyrics are within the margins is a relatively large computational task. To speed up processing, lilypond does not perform such calculations by default; to enable it, use

\override Score.PaperColumn #'keep-inside-line = ##t

To make lyrics avoid barlines as well, use

\layout {
  \context {
    \Lyrics
      \consists "Bar_engraver"
      \consists "Separating_line_group_engraver"
      \override BarLine #'transparent = ##t
  }
}


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