Re: Lyric alignment

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl Sorensen wrote Saturday, February 12, 2011 3:39 PM


> On 2/12/11 6:39 AM, "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > and go to "Spacing of non-staff lines" and then mod that a bit, 
> > we get the
> > attached file (it's a bit long for in-line, IMO).  This produces 
> > the output
> > attached.  Don't think that's what we should get.  Does the team 
> > think this
> > is a bug replacing 1161?
>
> Well, I don't think this is a code bug.  It's a documentation (or
> understanding) bug.

Not sure.  Seems to me that calling this CENTER is the
problem.  If

> CENTER doesn't (and shouldn't) mean to center lyrics between 
> staves

then why call it CENTER?  It's going to remain misleading,
especially as the NR /says/ that it centers lyrics.

Carl gave a good explanation of what CENTER does:

> CENTER means "look up to the next line -- if it's a
> staff, use inter-staff-spacing, if it's a non-staff
> (e.g. lyrics) use inter-loose-line-spacing.  Then
> look down to the next line -- if it's a staff, use
> inter-staff-spacing, if it's a non-staff use
> inter-loose-line-spacing".

I think #'staff-affinity = #BOTH fits nicely with
#UP and #DOWN and would be a better description of this
action.  That would need a code change, albeit a trivial
one.

Trevor