Re: Lyrics and spacing inside a system

[Neil Puttock]

On 23 March 2010 11:49, Dmytro O. Redchuk <address@hidden> wrote:

> So, here is the simplified example:
>
> % --------------8<-----------------------------
> \score {
>  \context ChoirStaff <<
>    \new Staff = "upperstaff" <<
>      \new Voice = "alto" {
>        \voiceTwo
>        g'4 g' r2
>      }
>      \context Lyrics = "altolyrics" \lyricsto "alto"
>          \lyricmode { a a }
>    >>
>    %
>    \new Staff = "tenstaff" <<
>      \new Voice = "tenor" {
>        f'4 f' f' f'
>      }
>      \context Lyrics = "tenlyrics" \with {
>        alignAboveContext = "tenstaff"
>      } \lyricsto "tenor" \lyricmode { _ _ p p }
>
>    >>
>  >>
> }
>
> \paper {
>  ragged-right = ##t
>  indent = 0
> }
> % --------------8<-----------------------------
>
> So, there is "some unwanted vertical space" between lyrics lines, which
> i failed to make to disappear with spacings and affinity.

OK, here's another trick you might try:

\layout {
  \context {
    \Lyrics
    \override LyricText #'after-line-breaking =
    #(lambda (grob)
       (let ((text (ly:grob-property grob 'text)))
            (and (string? text)
                 (string=? text " ")
                 (set! (ly:grob-property grob 'Y-extent) #f))))
  }
}

This checks each LyricText grob to see whether it's a skip (the lexer
converts an underscore to a space in a \lyricmode block), then resets
the vertical extent so the skips don't take up any space in the
alignment.

Cheers,
Neil