"Joe Neeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/30/07, Monk Panteleimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It appears that 2.11 is trying to keep single staves from occupying their > > own (last) page. That's a good idea too but, at least in my case, it seems > > to be doing so at the expense of good lyric spacing in a ChoirStaff. > > Lyrics should be equidistant from higher and lower staves, right? > > I'm not sure -- I wrote the code but I don't usually use lyrics. It > was suggested to me (I can't find the email) that lyrics should stay > close to the staff to which they are attached. So when lilypond > stretches the systems (to better fill the page) it leaves the lyrics > close to the staff above. This is described, along with the relevant > overrides, in the 2.11 manual (the section on vertical spacing). > > If someone can suggest a better default algorithm for the placement of > lyrics in stretched systems, I'd be happy to hear it (although > probably not until 2.13).
I do use lyrics, and the settings to use depends on the usage. There really isn't a way that I can think of for Lilypond to automatically set the stretching properties of a Lyrics context. (If there was a way to specify that a Lyrics context should be aligned to *multiple* voices and (thus) staves, a good algorithm would be "close to the staff if only one, centered between multiple staffs". And I could imagine horisontal positioning depending on the placement of notes (and possibly melismas) in multiple voices. But that's probably too much work for too little gain.) -- Arvid _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
