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7.3 Vocal music

There are three different issues when printing vocal music

The simplest solution for printing music uses the \addlyrics function to solve all these problems at once. However, these three functions can be controlled separately, which is necessary for complex vocal music.

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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