Gerard, >From what I can see and probably what others will tell you the spacing is >equal if you take the bottom of the stave to the top of the character. It is >just that with 'one' and 'two' for example the height between the bottom stave >line and the top of the 'o' being the same as the top of the 't' makes the >word itself appear out of line.
So you are not doing anything wrong as such, it is just that the engraving is not using the 'base line' of the letters as the lining up point. For example change 'and' to 'one' and you will see it apparently line up with the first 'one', it is the letter 'd' of 'and' that is pushing this word down and making it look out of line. There is already some discussion on the whys and wherefores of this. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/53925 Not that it helps you as such, but this is expected behaviour as far as I can tell. I think if you use the appropriate #'staff-padding = #X where 'X' is a minus number (-1, -2.4 etc) that this will help. James -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Gerard McConnell Sent: Thu 1/14/2010 11:12 To: [email protected] Subject: odd text position? Hello, As you can see from the following code snippet, the three words don't seem to go on the same baseline under the notes. Could you please tell me what I've done wrong? Thanks for any help, Gerard \version "2.12.2" \layout { ragged-right = ##f } \score { { \set Staff.instrumentName = "1" \clef bass \time 2/4 \relative c { c8 -\tweak #'font-size #-3 _one c -\tweak #'font-size #-3 _and c4 -\tweak #'font-size #-3 _two d8 d d4 e8 e e4 c2 \bar "|." } } } _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
