RE: lyrics vertical movement - help requested.

[James Lowe]

Hello, Bill,
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Sent: 18 June 2011 08:13
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Subject: Re: lyrics vertical movement - help requested.

 > 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


Hi Matthew,
Yeh, well....
If I search the NM pdf file for 'lyrics spacing' I find p238 which is
not overwhelmingly helpful, and finding the relevant bits as defined for
the \paper entry required more lateral thinking than I was then capable
of. :)
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I'm always looking out for ways of improving the documentation, so any 
suggestions we can take on board and if not use them explicitly, perhaps use 
them to make the reference more helpful that it might be. For something like 
'spacing' it's a balance between giving too specific information (for instance 
in your case for lyrics, which I don't use in my own LilyPond tyepsetting at 
all, and too 'general' information which is vague for everyone.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#placing-lyrics-vertically

I am guessing you looked here?

If there is something (perhaps an index reference - I haven't checked for one 
personally) or some other suggestion, fire away and we can see what we can do.

Always happy to help.

James