Re: [Feature Request] Align lyrics to middle of font 'x-height' instead of baseline

[Simon Albrecht]

On 23.03.2016 18:14, Abraham Lee wrote:
> Dev Team,
>
> I was wondering if you have any insight concerning the possibility
> of/complications with changing the default Y-offset of LyricText to
> be aligned on vertical center of the font's x-height. The Dynamics
> characters do something similar already (roughly aligned on the vertical
> center of Emmentaler's "m" glyph[1]), so why not lyrics? Seems like this
> would bring a visual improvement over the current Y-offset of zero (i.e.,
> the font's baseline).
[…]
> I guess this might only be helpful when you want the lyrics to be
> vertically centered between two staves (like in a hymnal)

Why would anybody want that? The lyrics should be placed between the 
skylines of the neighbouring lines, and I don’t see the point of any 
exact v-centering.
If anything, Y-offset would be relevant for alignment with other items 
on or next to the lyrics line. I don’t know how alignment with 
LyricHyphen and LyricExtender is currently handled, and how that would 
play with your suggestion; the only other item I can think of now is 
StanzaNumber – which should of course normally have the same baseline as 
the LyricText.

Yours, Simon