Re: move lyrics closer

[M Watts]

James E. Bailey wrote:
> I want to move lyrics closer to each other. I've tried \layout 
> {\context { \Lyrics \override #'baseline-skip = #-55 } } and it's not 
> working for me. I'm sure I've just got the wrong context somewhere. 
> Can someone point me to the right way?
Do you mean move words closer together, or lines closer together?  If 
words, it might be something like

\override LyricText #'wordspace = #0.3, the default is 0.6. 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/LyricText#LyricText

But I'm fairly weak on Lyrics, so I haven't really tested this.