Re: Lyrics too cozy with notes

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On 16 déc. 2012, at 18:46, "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On 16 déc. 2012, at 18:37, "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> 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
>> 
>> I'd expect the staves to be spaced further apart to keep the upper lyrics 
>> away from the lower notes.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Phil Holmes
>> Bug Squad
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> Me too - I think it's a valid bug report unless anyone has evidence to the 
> contrary.
> 
> Cheers,
> MS
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> The only thing I would say is that, in this situation, the lower line would 
> need its own lyrics, and these would typically also be between the staves. 
> What happens if you do that?
> 

Haven't tested it - it likely spaces out correctly, though.  In a hymnal this'd 
be how things are typeset, but in a four-staff SATB arrangement the lyrics 
almost always go under the music, so the test case is still valid.

Cheers,
MS