Re: lyrics vertical movement - help requested.

[Matthew Collett]

On 18/06/2011, at 1:20 pm, Bill Mooney wrote:
> As you can see in the attached example I have expanded the 'override' 
> completely - but, to achieve a satisfactory result both the (basic-distance . 
> ..) and (minimum-distance . ..) values have to be made equal otherwise one 
> overrides the other in the staff-lyrics spacing (see the second score) giving 
> somewhat unusual, sometimes, results. It would be nice to see it explicitly 
> stated somewhere in the Manual which has priority.

'basic-distance' is what you would like to have, 'minimum-distance' is the 
least you are willing to accept.  I thought the explanation at
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-_005cpaper-variables
was very clear.

Best wishes,
Matthew