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Re: Lyric line's vertical position is shifting from one staff system to


From: David Wright
Subject: Re: Lyric line's vertical position is shifting from one staff system to the next.
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 20:25:04 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Fri 01 Jun 2018 at 12:25:21 (-0400), Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> > I just want to thank you promptly for you very quick response.
> 
> Glad it helped.
> 
> > It also looks like you have solved the text clashing with the bar lines. 
> > Any advice on where I might study how to control this better?
> 
> I’m not sure exactly… Lyrics are designed not to clash with barlines;

No, but bear in mind that they don't usually get the chance to encounter
them, as they aren't normally drawn crossing the lyrics' lines.
(Why on earth *did* Bärenreiter print them across the chorus lyrics in
their BWV248 vocal score?)

> likely, you using extra-offset (instead of padding, as I did) tricked the 
> spacing engine into allowing collisions.

Cheers,
David.



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