Hello, Bill, ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Bill Mooney [[email protected]] Sent: 18 June 2011 08:13 To: [email protected] Cc: lilypond-User List Subject: Re: lyrics vertical movement - help requested.
> As you can see in the attached example I have expanded the 'override' > completely - but, to achieve a satisfactory result both the (basic-distance . > ..) and (minimum-distance . ..) values have to be made equal otherwise one > overrides the other in the staff-lyrics spacing (see the second score) giving > somewhat unusual, sometimes, results. It would be nice to see it explicitly > stated somewhere in the Manual which has priority. 'basic-distance' is what you would like to have, 'minimum-distance' is the least you are willing to accept. I thought the explanation at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-_005cpaper-variables was very clear. Best wishes, Matthew Hi Matthew, Yeh, well.... If I search the NM pdf file for 'lyrics spacing' I find p238 which is not overwhelmingly helpful, and finding the relevant bits as defined for the \paper entry required more lateral thinking than I was then capable of. :) ---------- I'm always looking out for ways of improving the documentation, so any suggestions we can take on board and if not use them explicitly, perhaps use them to make the reference more helpful that it might be. For something like 'spacing' it's a balance between giving too specific information (for instance in your case for lyrics, which I don't use in my own LilyPond tyepsetting at all, and too 'general' information which is vague for everyone. http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#placing-lyrics-vertically I am guessing you looked here? If there is something (perhaps an index reference - I haven't checked for one personally) or some other suggestion, fire away and we can see what we can do. Always happy to help. James _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
