Re: (bug?) irregular lyrics distance in 2.13.10

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi all,

In light of this thread, I renew my concern — voiced several times on this list 
— that Lilypond seems to explicitly *NOT* space text in terms of its baseline, 
in contrast to essentially every other text-manipulation application (or even 
manual process).

As we can see, this decision causes problems with every bit of text in 
Lilypond: dynamics, marks, markup, Lyrics, and so on.

I am fully aware of the fact that Lilypond is not a text editor or text layout 
tool. However, since music notation requires the proper manipulation of a 
[sometimes large] number of text elements, Lilypond should really Do The Right 
Thing™ viz a viz text placement.

Cheers,
Kieren.

On 2010-Jan-13, at 10:17, Alexander Kobel wrote:

> Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
>> Op woensdag 13 januari 2010 schreef Francisco:
>>> Here is a previous thread on the subject.
>>> 
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-05/msg00066.html
>> This thread is concerned with markup objects, but my buglet is about the 
>> vertical alignment of Lyrics contexts.
> 
> Well, here's another one:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-11/msg00412.html
> 
>> LilyPond 2.12.2 and 2.13.1 display the Lyrics lines correctly, at regular 
>> distances.
>> It seems the new vertical spacing engine in 2.13.10 has not (yet) sensible 
>> defaults for Lyrics contexts?
> 
> I suppose it's because the spacing in 2.12 only relied on the Y-extent 
> property, which defaults to a value including usual extenders of the glyphs?
> However, in terms of space efficiency it's debatable whether extenders should 
> be ignored or not.  In case you have more than two consecutive lines of 
> lyrics, I guess you want the spacing to be even, which needs manual tweaking 
> for now.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexander
> 
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