Re: Vertical spacing of lyrics

[Alexander Kobel]

Christian Hitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the new vertical spacing is evaluating the skyline of the lyrics lines for
> spacing. This leads to situations with a very uneven look, as the example
> below shows. IMHO the tallest glyph in the used font should be used to 
> derive the height of the lyrics line.

This very much depends on what you engrave. If you're making larger 
scores with many staves per system, vertical space is pretty much more 
important than everything else, and it's common practice to fit the 
lyrics as tight to the staves and as close together as possible.

If you want to have a more equal spacing, try modifying the LyricText 
#'minimum-Y-extent or (not sure if this works out) the new 
Lyrics.VerticalAxisGroup #'inter-loose-line-spacing [1]. E.g., in your 
example, adding
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Lyrics
      \override LyricText #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-1.5 . 1.5)
    }
  }
to the score seems to solve the problem for me.

There are simple "workarounds" to simulate the 
one-box-to-rule-all-glyphs-approach, but if you decide to drop the 
skyline algorithm, it's nearly impossible to automatically achieve the 
tighter setting.


Cheers,
Alexander

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-10/msg00215.html