Re: Issue 1309 in lilypond: Consecutive interrupted lyrics from different staves are no longer aligned

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Comment #1 on issue 1309 by address@hidden: Consecutive interrupted  
lyrics from different staves are no longer aligned
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1309

The spacing adjustments I recently suggested on the -user mailing list  
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-11/msg00111.html)
make the symptom in this issue a bit *worse*, unfortunately.

Specifically, increasing the padding between Lyrics and grobs from the  
opposite staff,
\layout { \context { \Dynamics
\override VerticalAxisGroup #'inter-staff-spacing #'padding = #1.5
}}
makes the vertical offset between the two lyrics lines slightly larger.

The obvious workaround, #'padding = #0, does align the lyrics lines, but  
would let the words touch in a modified exampel where they sing at the same  
time.

Interestingly, the offset between the two Lyrics baselines is the *sum* of  
padding and minumum-distance, where I would expect only minimum distance to  
be effective in this case.  Version 2.13.38 produced the the attached  
image, when I added
\layout { \context {
  \Lyrics
  \override VerticalAxisGroup #'non-affinity-spacing #'padding = #1.5
  \override VerticalAxisGroup #'non-affinity-spacing #'minimum-distance =  
#2.5
}
to the example above; the offset between Lyrics lines is 4 staffspaces.   
(Two lines of Dynamics between staves are similarly offset, but *only* if I  
give minimum-distance a value, even 0.  'minimum-distance = ##f lets my  
Dynamics line up, but not Dmytro's Lyrics?!)

If users of this lyrics style restart the discussion on lilypond-user, we  
might make progress on this, and similar issue 1208 and issue 1161, now  
that we understand the new spacing routine better.

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