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

[Trevor Daniels]

> 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
>
>
> 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 tried it, but the docs say setting
staff-affinity to #f causes non-staff lines to
be treated as staves.  Might this do what you
want?

> 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.

The docs certainly could be improved.  I wonder if
the best approach is to visit the lyrics templates
in the LM and set these up with appropriate overrides?
One or two more to illustrate different lyric layouts
would be helpful too.

Trevor