Re: lyrics vertical spacing and dynamics with extra-offset

[Trevor Daniels]

Frank, you wrote Saturday, April 07, 2012 7:33 PM

> I attached the three bars of the piece in which it appears.  Notice that 
> both
> the upper and the lower voice contain a Dynamic mark.  The two marks have 
> an
> extra-offset each to get them closer to the staff.
>
> In the first score, the lyrics are put nicely close to the staff. But as 
> soon
> as the lower lyrics span across the space where the dynamic mark would be
> without the offset, both lyrics seem to ignore the space that became 
> available
> by using the extra-offset.  Thus, the distance to the staff increases 
> again.
>
> Is that a bug?  Or am I making a mistake here?

It's not a bug, and not really a mistake either.  But extra-offset should
be used only as a last resort, as the extra displacement is made only
_after_ _all_ typesetting is finished.  So extra space is ignored.

This is explained in the Learning Manual:
http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/moving-objects

Trevor