Hi Rainer,
Thanks for the reply. Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier - I must have
missed it.
It turned out that simply running PMXAB again fixed up my spacing problem.
It may been caused by using mismatched versions.
Cheeers,
Brendan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rainer Dunker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Typesetting music with TeX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 8:15 AM
Subject: [TeX-music] Re: double-spaced lyrics
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:37:34PM +1000, Brendan Macmillan wrote:
> > (1) what part of the installation I could change, so that double spacing
> > will affect lyrics?
>
> As has been mentioned before, the vertical distance between two lyrics
> baselines is just the height + depth of the characters '()' of the font
> that was in effect when \setlyrstrut was called most recently. I would be
> very surprised if any of LaTeX's vertical line spacing parameters were
> able to affect this, and would be very interested to see an example.
>
> > (2) how I can double-space lyrics?
>
> The straightforward way is indeed to somehow redefine the "lyrics strut".
> I'd recommend this form (height and depth are just examples):
>
> \setbox\lyrstrutbox=\hbox{\vrule height 2em depth .3em width 0pt}
>
> Once in this thread it was said that importing multiple M-Tx-created .tex
> files into a single LaTeX master file would annihilate the global effect
> of such a definition by repeatedly resetting it to its standard value. I
> don't believe that: Inputting musixlyr.tex more than once has no further
> effect, and it won't redefine or reset anything. Thus, inserting the
> \lyrstrutbox redefinition into your LaTeX master file somewhere between
> calling \mtxlatex and \begin{document} should have a global effect. (If
> this is wrong, please send me an example!).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rainer
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