Hi all, In light of this thread, I renew my concern — voiced several times on this list — that Lilypond seems to explicitly *NOT* space text in terms of its baseline, in contrast to essentially every other text-manipulation application (or even manual process).
As we can see, this decision causes problems with every bit of text in Lilypond: dynamics, marks, markup, Lyrics, and so on. I am fully aware of the fact that Lilypond is not a text editor or text layout tool. However, since music notation requires the proper manipulation of a [sometimes large] number of text elements, Lilypond should really Do The Right Thing™ viz a viz text placement. Cheers, Kieren. On 2010-Jan-13, at 10:17, Alexander Kobel wrote: > Wilbert Berendsen wrote: >> Op woensdag 13 januari 2010 schreef Francisco: >>> Here is a previous thread on the subject. >>> >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-05/msg00066.html >> This thread is concerned with markup objects, but my buglet is about the >> vertical alignment of Lyrics contexts. > > Well, here's another one: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-11/msg00412.html > >> LilyPond 2.12.2 and 2.13.1 display the Lyrics lines correctly, at regular >> distances. >> It seems the new vertical spacing engine in 2.13.10 has not (yet) sensible >> defaults for Lyrics contexts? > > I suppose it's because the spacing in 2.12 only relied on the Y-extent > property, which defaults to a value including usual extenders of the glyphs? > However, in terms of space efficiency it's debatable whether extenders should > be ignored or not. In case you have more than two consecutive lines of > lyrics, I guess you want the spacing to be even, which needs manual tweaking > for now. > > > Cheers, > Alexander > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user