Re: Problem with lyrics (or should I say without lyrics?)

[Dominic Sacré]

On Wednesday 21 February 2001 21:31, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>
> You can do (see below), although I don't understand why we need the
> hara-kiri-engraver.  I would have thought that an emty line of lyrics
> would have dy = 0, and thus, with this
>
>    VerticalAlignment \override #'threshold = #'(0 . 2.5)
>
> set, would take no vertical space.  Hmm.
>
> [snip]
>
>     \translator {
>        \LyricsContext
>       % Hmm, we need hara-kiri, because empty lyrics line has still height??
>        \remove "Axis_group_engraver";
>        \consistsend "Hara_kiri_engraver";
>        VerticalAlignment \override #'threshold = #'(0 . 2.5)
>     }
>

Thanks alot!

         Dominic