Re: Issue 1483 in lilypond: Lyric alignment is wrong in 2.13.46

[lilypond]

Comment #14 on issue 1483 by address@hidden: Lyric alignment is  
wrong in 2.13.46
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1483

Thanks for the work, Phil.  You've clarified the issues for me.

The fundamental difference between the old spacing system and the new  
spacing system, IIUC, is that in the old spacing system Lyrics had equal  
priority with Staff in deciding spacing.

In order to get the Staff locations fixed on a page, the new spacing  
algorithm fixes staves without considering Lyrics, then puts the Lyrics in  
the gaps as best it can.

Two comments come out of this.

First, setting the top-system-spacing as well as the system-system spacing  
in your example resolves the "first-system" problem.
\paper {
  system-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #20
  top-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #10
  }

\score {
  \new ChoirStaff <<
    \new Staff = women <<
      \new Voice = "sopranos" {
        \voiceOne
        fis4 fis fis fis | \break
        fis4 fis fis fis
      }
    \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "women" } {
      \lyricsto sopranos { La la la la la la la la }
    }
    >>
  >>
}

See attached file of results.

Second, I wonder if it might be possible to have a setting, something like  
make-lyrics-loose, that could be adjusted to let the user select between  
2.12 and 2.13 behavior.  If make-lryics-loose is #t, the staves would be  
placed first, then filled in with the lyrics.  If make-lyrics-loose is #f,  
then the lyrics would be fit in as part of the sytems along with the staves.

I haven't looked into this last possibility, but I thought that perhaps Joe  
might chime in on the feasibility of this idea.

At any rate, I think that with the understanding that we need to 1) use  
alignAboveContext for lyrics above a staff, and 2) make space for lyrics,  
with top-system-spacing, system-system-spacing, system-bottom-spacing, and  
default-staff-staff-spacing, I think we can move this bug to a  
Documentation bug (still Critical), if we can't fix it using the  
make-lyrics-loose idea from above.




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