Re: Ignore stems

[Aaron Hill]

On 2022-03-25 5:11 am, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I want to try having Lyrics placed without regard for any stems in the
> adjacent staff (and then using whiteout to remedy the clash, of
> course). The below approach doesn’t work. Why? Can I make it work?

You'll typically need to use negative padding to get overlapping ink.

%%%%
  \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing =
    #'((minimum-distance . 4.5) (padding . -2))
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill