Okay. Thanks to Joe Neeman and the manual, I can now fix the problem for my own purposes by doing
\context ChoirStaff \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup #'keep-fixed-while-stretching = ##t } That seems to get the spacing back to normal. It doesn't cause any collisions (that I've seen). It even works after introducing a new Lyrics context right below the first. All is nicely spaced. For what it's worth, I think that this keep-fixed behavior should be true by default for the ChoirStaff context, if that's possible. It's good all-around, even if you plan to have multiple lyric lines for all or part of the piece. If it's not default, I think everyone who uses ChoirStaff will just tweak it this way. But it just case y'all don't think so, how could I do this in my layout block (which I have in a separate file) so that I don't have to edit all my files for use with future versions? -- Monk Panteleimon Hermitage of the Holy Cross Wayne, WV, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] + IC + XC + + + + + NI + KA + _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user