On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 06:53:57PM +0100, Mike Solomon wrote: > > On 16 d?c. 2012, at 18:46, "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> wrote: > > > <m...@mikesolomon.org> wrote in message > > news:4e267bda-b3ac-419b-83c4-4f10c3980...@mikesolomon.org... > > > > On 16 d?c. 2012, at 18:37, "Phil Holmes" <m...@philholmes.net> wrote: > > > >> <m...@mikesolomon.org> wrote in message > >> news:4f340ef1-b01d-4332-bc06-88b0cb1ff...@mikesolomon.org... > >>> In the following example : > >>> > >>> \version "2.17.9" > >>> > >>> << > >>> \relative c' { g a' a r4 a1 } > >>> \addlyrics { u u u u } > >>> \relative c''' { r2 r32 d8.. r4 R1 } > >>>>> > >>> > >>> I'm not convinced that the lower voice should slice through the lyrics. > >>> I'm typesetting a choral works and it looks, while sightreading, that the > >>> u in the higher voice is a sort of annotation for the lower voice (the > >>> spacing is even tighter in my real example). > >>> > >>> What does real literature do? Does this type of typesetting ever happen? > >>> I think it'd be worth it to horizontally pad skylines in Lyric contexts > >>> so that this sort of snug fitting doesn't happen. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> MS > >> > >> I'd expect the staves to be spaced further apart to keep the upper lyrics > >> away from the lower notes. > >> > >> -- > >> Phil Holmes > >> Bug Squad > >> > > > > Me too - I think it's a valid bug report unless anyone has evidence to the > > contrary. > > > > Cheers, > > MS > > > > ================================= > > > > The only thing I would say is that, in this situation, the lower line would > > need its own lyrics, and these would typically also be between the staves. > > What happens if you do that? > > > > Haven't tested it - it likely spaces out correctly, though. In a hymnal > this'd be how things are typeset, but in a four-staff SATB arrangement the > lyrics almost always go under the music, so the test case is still valid.
Thanks Mike, Phil. I've created a tracker with preview image here: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3035 Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Hall _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
