Re: Issue 1486 in lilypond: Lyrics above the first staff in a system are spaced too closely for the first system

[lilypond]

Comment #1 on issue 1486 by address@hidden: Lyrics above the first  
staff in a system are spaced too closely for the first system
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1486

I think revising the Documentation is an appropriate fix, especially if we  
make sure that we have an entry in CHANGES.


Setting the top-system-spacing as well as the system-system spacing in your  
example resolves the "first-system" problem.

\paper {
  system-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #20
  top-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #10
  }

\score {
  \new ChoirStaff <<
    \new Staff = women <<
      \new Voice = "sopranos" {
        \voiceOne
        fis4 fis fis fis | \break
        fis4 fis fis fis
      }
    \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "women" } {
      \lyricsto sopranos { La la la la la la la la }
    }
    >>
  >>
}

See attached file of results.


At any rate, I think that with the understanding that we need to 1) use  
alignAboveContext for lyrics above a staff, and 2) make space for lyrics,  
with top-system-spacing, system-system-spacing, system-bottom-spacing, and  
default-staff-staff-spacing I think this becomes a Documentation bug (still  
Critical).


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