Re: Issue 1309 in lilypond: Consecutive interrupted lyrics from different staves are no longer aligned

[Keith E OHara]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:02:18 -0800, <address@hidden> wrote:
> Comment #7 on issue 1309 by reinhold.kainhofer: Consecutive interrupted
> lyrics from different staves are no longer aligned
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1309
> I'm running into this very problem with a real score I'm currently
> typesetting: After a Soprano solo, the choir sets in. Of course, the Solo
> and the choir use different lyrics contexts, so the choir lyrics are
> display one line below the (no longer existing) Solo lyrics, making them
> look like they belong to the Alto staff.

1) Our proposed new default, 'padding=1.5 between lyrics and grobs belonging to 
another staff, will help.

2) I assume you have blanks or \skip s in the solo lyrics, while she sings with 
the other sopranos.  The old system spaced lyrics based on their contents, but 
the new system separates baselines by default 
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-01/msg00257.html).

Lilypond aligns the lyrics (image) if we \override VerticalAxisGroup 
#'inter-loose-line-spacing #'minimum-distance = ##f.

So this last example, with both lyric lines UP, does *not* suffer the 
padding-miscalculation bug that made it so hard to find a workaround for 
Dmytro's example.
-Keith

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