On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Alan Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I am trying to make a staff consisting only of lyrics separated by bar
> lines.
> I've made a Rhythmic Staff with number of lines set to 0, removed the
> time-signature, used hideNotes on the notes the lyrics are attached to, and
> used hidden rests. The result is close to what I want, but I can't seem to
> get the lyrics centered vertically between the bar lines (that is, right in
> the center of the staff itself if it were visible). The best I can do,
> fiddling with the numbers in minimum-Y-extent for the VerticalAxisGroup, is
> get them to barely overlap the lower portion of the space between the bars.
>
> Any suggestions? I've searched this forum and the documentation pretty
> thoroughly. Thanks.
>
> Alan Shaw
>

extra-offset is your friend.  Add this to your code:

\override LyricText #'extra-offset = #'( 0.0 . 5.6)

I just changed the offset value from the following snippet from the Lilypond
Snippet Repository:

http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=537

HTH,

Jon

-- 
Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com
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