Re: Better vertical spacing in 2.11 adversely affects lyric spacing

[Arvid Grøtting]

"Joe Neeman" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/30/07, Monk Panteleimon <address@hidden> wrote:
> > It appears that 2.11 is trying to keep single staves from occupying their
> > own (last) page. That's a good idea too but, at least in my case, it seems
> > to be doing so at the expense of good lyric spacing in a ChoirStaff.
> > Lyrics should be equidistant from higher and lower staves, right?
> 
> I'm not sure -- I wrote the code but I don't usually use lyrics. It
> was suggested to me (I can't find the email) that lyrics should stay
> close to the staff to which they are attached. So when lilypond
> stretches the systems (to better fill the page) it leaves the lyrics
> close to the staff above. This is described, along with the relevant
> overrides, in the 2.11 manual (the section on vertical spacing).
> 
> If someone can suggest a better default algorithm for the placement of
> lyrics in stretched systems, I'd be happy to hear it (although
> probably not until 2.13).

I do use lyrics, and the settings to use depends on the usage.  There
really isn't a way that I can think of for Lilypond to automatically
set the stretching properties of a Lyrics context.

(If there was a way to specify that a Lyrics context should be aligned
to *multiple* voices and (thus) staves, a good algorithm would be
"close to the staff if only one, centered between multiple staffs".
And I could imagine horisontal positioning depending on the placement
of notes (and possibly melismas) in multiple voices.  But that's
probably too much work for too little gain.)


-- Arvid