Re: Lyrics collide with barlines

[Marcus Macauley]

Catalin Francu wrote:
> Every now and then, lyrics will collide with barlines.
...
> Ideally, I'd like a way to tell Lilypond "I want at least two mm of
> space between barlines and text".

Hi Catalin,

This doesn't quite address your question/gripe, but for what it's worth,  
if a piece of regular text markup is colliding with a barline and you want  
the barline to be "blanked out" around it (rather than avoiding the  
collision in some other way), you can change:
   \markup { "your text" }

to:
   \markup { \whiteout "your text" }

...and voila!

(\whiteout is documented in the manual, "8.1.6 Overview of text markup  
commands")

Something analogous may be possible with lyrics, too, although it would  
have to be done on a case-by-case basis, and it may not be the effect you  
want.

Marcus