Re: Odd vertical spacing of lyrics

[Mike Solomon]

I'll chime in and say that, although there is a workaround, the fact that there 
is not good out-of-the-box spacing may effect a lot of real world examples of 
choral music that is being engraved using lilypond.

It may be worth it to add this to the issue tracker and get this fixed in one 
of the first 2.14 bug fixes (if not 2.14 itself) - thoughts?

Cheers,
MS

Is there a way to add this to the issue tracker.

On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Jan Warchoł wrote:

> 2011/1/18 Carl Sorensen <address@hidden>
>> 
>> On 1/18/11 8:26 AM, "Mike Solomon" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey all,
>>> 
>>> The following snippet is giving me the attached output w/ the soprano line
>>> shifted way up after the line break.  Is there any way to get the soprano
>>> correctly aligned (w/o changing the distance between systems - this minimal
>>> example approximates a larger one w/ many systems over several pages).
>>> 
>>> \version "2.13.47"
>> 
>> 
>> Mike,
>> 
>> I got it to work successfully with the following change:
>> 
>>    \new Lyrics = sopranos \with {
>>      \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-affinity = #DOWN
>>      } { s1 }
>> 
>> 
>> The lyrics were still a little bit high, however.  It's almost like there's
>> a blank context hiding in the middle.  But I haven't been able to get rid of
>> that small amount of extra space.
> 
> The reference point of lyrics is the baseline and this is the cause of
> the problem - #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing #'basic-distance
> appropriate for lyrics below staff is not appropriate for lyrics above
> staff. Consider the following (and look at the attachment):
> 
> \version "2.13.45"
> 
> \paper { system-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #20 ragged-right = ##t }
> 
> \score {
> \new ChoirStaff <<
>   \new Lyrics = abovelyrics \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup
> #'staff-affinity = #DOWN }
>     { s1 }
>   \new Staff {
>        \new Voice = "empty" { r4 r r r \break } \new Voice =
> "firstPart" { f' f' f' f' } \new Voice = "secondPart" { e'' e'' e''
> e'' }
>     }
>   \new Lyrics = "belowlyrics" { s1 }
> 
>   \context Lyrics = abovelyrics \lyricsto firstPart \lyricmode { ma
> -- ma ma -- ma }
>   \context Lyrics = belowlyrics \lyricsto secondPart \lyricmode { mo
> mo -- mo mo }
>>> 
>  \layout {
>    \context {
>      %  \Lyrics \override VerticalAxisGroup
> #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing #'basic-distance = #4
>        }
>    }
> }
> 
> You can see how this changes by uncommenting the
> nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing override.
> 
> The strange thing is that all this somehow doesn't affect first system.
> 
> cheers,
> Janek