Re: Vertically centering lyrics between two staves?

[Carl Peterson]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Eluze <address@hidden> wrote:

Ted Walther wrote

> Another problem with that snippet is the amount to drop.  With a good
> centering command, it is centered.  But if I alter the font size, etc, the
> amount of raising and dropping needed to center the lyrics will alter.
> How
> can I predict that without a lot of kludgy code?  Again, I'm generating
> lilypond code from templates.  I can compensate for some complexity, but
> the simpler the better.

it would be easier to talk about a real example - can you provide a scan or
similar of what you'd like to get!?

thanks
Eluze

See the refrain in http://www.hymnary.org/page/fetch/WASH1957/264/low for an example of what Ted's talking about.