Re: Lyrics, vertical position

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Op donderdag 17 april 2008, schreef Francisco Vila:
> Hello all,
> With recent releases of LilyPond I can not fit in one page some choral
> scores that used to fit well with older versions. The culprit seems to
> be the increased amount of space between lyrics and music. I still
> have to investigate which version introduced this, but in the meantime
> I'd like to raise the lyrics baseline manually, if it is possible. Is
> it? thank you.

Yes, put something like
\context { 
        \Lyrics
        \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-1 . 0)
}
in your \layout { } section. Experiment with different values. Docs:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Vertical-spacing-inside-a-system
best regards,
Wilbert Berendsen

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