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| From: | Adam Good |
| Subject: | Re: Lyrics above staff height inconsistent |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:28:33 -0500 |
On 2021-11-10 7:46 am, Adam Good wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Here's a question I'm sure has been asked and answered often. I much
> prefer
> lyrics below the staff but if I had to, in the example below, what is
> causing the lyrics on the 2nd and 3rd stafflines to be higher than
> staffline 1? Playing with:
>
> \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.padding
>
> ...doesn't quite deliver for me.
Padding is only one element of spacing. You need to consider
basic-distance and minimum-distance, perhaps also stretchability.
LilyPond will try to accommodate basic-distance though it does not force
it to be exact, as it may compress or stretch vertical spacing when
fitting music to the page. While minimum-distance does define a strict
lower bound for the spacing, elements still could be stretched apart.
Both basic- and minimum-distance are measured from baseline-to-baseline,
whereas padding factors in the skylines of the content to ensure a
specified distance between "ink".
The default spacing for Lyrics is a basic-distance of 5.5, padding of
0.5, and stretchability of 1. minimum-distance is unspecified, which I
believe defaults to zero.
In your example, LilyPond could not accommodate the 5.5 basic-distance
for the top line of Lyrics and reduced it to the minimum; however,
factoring in padding results in it being a little further away. Since
there seems to be quite a bit of paper space available, it is odd that
the basic-distance could not be satisfied. Perhaps there is a subtle
bug in the layout logic.
The easy fix is to specify minimum-distance as well. If you like 5.5 as
a basic-distance, just match that value.
-- Aaron Hill
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