Nicholas Moe wrote: > > I am writing a piece which requires lyrics above and below the staff. > I would like to have regular measure numbers right above the bar-line > (i.e. always approx. 0.75 staff lines above the staff). Ideally I > would like to make the lyrics invisible to the bar numbers. > > I have been unable to find a way to consistently do this throughout > the piece. Even doing an #'extra-offset tweak doesn't work, because > the starting point is not always the same, and in the actual piece of > music, the starting point is higher or lower on each system depending > on how the notes are in that system. > > Does anyone have an idea of how to do this? Is there a way to make the > lyrics invisible to the bar numbers? I have an example set up below. > here is a way that seems to work (but there might be more convenient ways):
use \override Score.BarNumber #'extra-offset = #'(0 . -3) and the following vertical distance settings - play around with the numbers: \layout { \context { \Lyrics \override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing = #'((basic-distance . 5) (minimum-distance . 5) (padding . .75)) } } Eluze -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Consistent-bar-number-positioning-tp31815077p31816579.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user