On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Trevor Daniels <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> wrote: > > Frank, you wrote Saturday, April 07, 2012 7:33 PM > >> I attached the three bars of the piece in which it appears. Notice that >> both >> the upper and the lower voice contain a Dynamic mark. The two marks have >> an >> extra-offset each to get them closer to the staff. >> >> In the first score, the lyrics are put nicely close to the staff. But as >> soon >> as the lower lyrics span across the space where the dynamic mark would be >> without the offset, both lyrics seem to ignore the space that became >> available >> by using the extra-offset. Thus, the distance to the staff increases >> again. >> >> Is that a bug? Or am I making a mistake here? > > It's not a bug, and not really a mistake either. But extra-offset should > be used only as a last resort, as the extra displacement is made only > _after_ _all_ typesetting is finished. So extra space is ignored.
In other words zou should override X-offset and Y-offset here, not extra-offset. HTH, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
