Aaron,
Thank you for your informative and helpful reply!
This, for the win:
\with {
\override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing =
#'((basic-distance . 1.0))
}
Looks fantastic, problem solved.
Adam
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:22 PM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com>
wrote:
> On 2021-11-10 7:46 am, Adam Good wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > Here's a question I'm sure has been asked and answered often. I much
> > prefer
> > lyrics below the staff but if I had to, in the example below, what is
> > causing the lyrics on the 2nd and 3rd stafflines to be higher than
> > staffline 1? Playing with:
> >
> > \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.padding
> >
> > ...doesn't quite deliver for me.
>
> Padding is only one element of spacing. You need to consider
> basic-distance and minimum-distance, perhaps also stretchability.
>
> LilyPond will try to accommodate basic-distance though it does not force
> it to be exact, as it may compress or stretch vertical spacing when
> fitting music to the page. While minimum-distance does define a strict
> lower bound for the spacing, elements still could be stretched apart.
> Both basic- and minimum-distance are measured from baseline-to-baseline,
> whereas padding factors in the skylines of the content to ensure a
> specified distance between "ink".
>
> The default spacing for Lyrics is a basic-distance of 5.5, padding of
> 0.5, and stretchability of 1. minimum-distance is unspecified, which I
> believe defaults to zero.
>
> In your example, LilyPond could not accommodate the 5.5 basic-distance
> for the top line of Lyrics and reduced it to the minimum; however,
> factoring in padding results in it being a little further away. Since
> there seems to be quite a bit of paper space available, it is odd that
> the basic-distance could not be satisfied. Perhaps there is a subtle
> bug in the layout logic.
>
> The easy fix is to specify minimum-distance as well. If you like 5.5 as
> a basic-distance, just match that value.
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill
>
