Re: minimumVerticalExtent & minimum-Y-extent

[Mats Bengtsson]

Risto Vääräniemi wrote:
> I don't usually use \addlyrics to but the same happens with \lyricmode, too.
>   
\lyricmode has nothing to do with it. It just tells the part of Lilypond 
that interprets your
.ly file, that anything within the \lyricmode{...} should be treated 
syntactically as
lyrics and note as note names. What you probably mean is that happens 
with \lyricsto.
However, Trevor just showed you how to do it together with \lyricsto.
> It would also be nice to be able to adjust the vertical lyrics spacing
> (e.g. with minimum-Y-extent) separately for each system. That cannot
> be done with minimum-Y-extent, though. Sometimes I've used dummy lyric
> lines with \markup { "" } where I want to add some more space. That
> cannot be used for fine tuning, though. :-)
Please read Trevor's answer ones more, he showed you exactly how to do this.

  /Mats