Re: control of lyrical spacing from staff

[Mats Bengtsson]

See
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Vertical-spacing.html#Vertical%20spacing
and
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-01/msg00329.html

  /Mats

Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
>   I have a score with a piano and 2 voice staves. The lyrics for the first 
> voice seem closer to the dynamics of the second voice than they do to the 
> notes of the first voice (which doesn't go below middle c if I remember 
> right). Even if it isn't quite right to do so, I wanted to move the lyrics 
> closer to the staff since I think it could make it look better and it should 
> be easy to get that last staffline off of page 3 when printing individual 
> singer parts. Should I really just squeeze horizontal spacing instead to make 
> it work out?
>   It's a copy of a copyrighted publication that I put into lilypond to correct 
> mistakes, print off individual parts to make it less confusing for the 
> elementary school kids to read, and be able to put together midi recordings 
> for accompaniment and so they can hear how the melody of their part goes 
> based on pitch and rhythm. As such, I assume it wouldn't be the wisest idea 
> to just post the whole thing up as an attachment to a publicly available 
> list, but if snippets are OK, I'll do that. I could also write up equivalent 
> short samples to express any issues I'm trying to sort out if those would 
> help.
> Thanks again,
> Ed Sutton
>
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