In the following example :
\version "2.17.9"
<<
\relative c' { g a' a r4 a1 }
\addlyrics { u u u u }
\relative c''' { r2 r32 d8.. r4 R1 }
I'm not convinced that the lower voice should slice through the lyrics.
I'm typesetting a choral works and it looks, while sightreading, that the
u in the higher voice is a sort of annotation for the lower voice (the
spacing is even tighter in my real example).
What does real literature do? Does this type of typesetting ever happen?
I think it'd be worth it to horizontally pad skylines in Lyric contexts so
that this sort of snug fitting doesn't happen.
Cheers,
MS