Nitpicky question of choral music notation

So. Choral music. Eight voices written in four staves--there's a lot of unison and some divisi passages, where there are two voices singing on a single staff. I've got some questions about layout and nitpicky stuff:

Do I need to have each note double-stemmed (that is, with an up-stem and a down-stem, to indicate both voices) in long unison passages with no divisi in that staff?

Which should go above the other, hairpins or lyrics for the top voice? Where in the stacking of things should dynamics/expressions go?

Also, while I'm asking: ought "breaking" to be spread across notes as "break-ing" or "brea-king"?

I'll post more questions as I run into them in my score clean-up. Thanks!!

1) I say write it on 8 staves when you need 8 staves. I HATE seeing heavily divisi choral writing smooshed into 4 staves.

2) No double stems unless it's a SINGLE unison note in a divisi passage.

3) Lyrics first, then hairpins. However, this is exactly why I hate shared staves for divisi passages. ALL lyrics should be below, and all dynamics and hairpins should be above.

4) Break-ing. It's relatively simple: the word and its suffix. Never break a single syllable word : break-ing, not brea-king. The word is "break".

So. Choral music. Eight voices written in four staves--there's a lot of unison and some divisi passages, where there are two voices singing on a single staff. I've got some questions about layout and nitpicky stuff:

Do I need to have each note double-stemmed (that is, with an up-stem and a down-stem, to indicate both voices) in long unison passages with no divisi in that staff?

Which should go above the other, hairpins or lyrics for the top voice? Where in the stacking of things should dynamics/expressions go?

Also, while I'm asking: ought "breaking" to be spread across notes as "break-ing" or "brea-king"?

I'll post more questions as I run into them in my score clean-up. Thanks!!

He could also be meaning "bread-king", in which case "breadk-ing" would sound weird.

:whistling:

Figured I'd revive this thread rather than start a new one for a single question, because y'all like to slam people for doing things like that.

Er, anyway. I'm attaching a snapshot of my score; my question is, given a staff with top-text, does a fermata go above or below the text? Thanks!