Re: Aligning Text Above (and Below) Notes

[Thomas Morley]

2012/12/5 Eluze <address@hidden>:
> Thomas Morley wrote
>> 2012/12/5 Eluze &lt;
>
>> eluzew@
>
>> &gt;:
>>> Eric Pancer wrote
>>>> One more issue: my lyrics above the second line of music have more
>>>> affinity towards the bottom lyric of the first line, than the actual
>>>> notes of the second line. Any pointers on how to fix it are
>>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> hmm - that's astonishing! if I change the order of the 2 scores this
>>> happens
>>> too, with the 2nd score being misaligned again!
>>>
>>> I tried all the kind of spacing overrides: nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing
>>> and
>>> others and finally found a working solution:
>>>
>>>       \new Lyrics \with {
>>>         alignAboveContext = exAA
>>>         \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-staff-spacing = #'(
>>>           (basic-distance . 1)
>>>           (minimum-distance . 1)
>>>           (padding . .5)
>>>           (stretchability . 999)
>>>         )
>>>         \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-affinity = ##f
>>>         fontSize = #-2
>>>       }
>>>
>>> note that the staff-affinity has to be set to false for this to work.
>>>
>>> I wonder if there are better solutions or if this is a bug.
>>>
>>> Eluze
>>>
>>
>> I've got quite convincing results with:
>>
>> \layout {
>>   \context {
>>     \Lyrics
>>     \override VerticalAxisGroup
>>       #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing #'basic-distance = #5
>>   }
>> }
>> \paper {
>>   score-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #15
>>   markup-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #15
>> }
>>
>> (setting them on toplevel)
>
> ok - I must have forgotten some stupid spacing variable somewhere!
>
> but I think the toplevel settings don't need to be changed!

+1

>
> thanks anyway
> Eluze