Re: lyrics vertical spacing and dynamics with extra-offset

[Janek Warchoł]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.

In other words zou should override X-offset and Y-offset here, not extra-offset.

HTH,
Janek