Re: Breathe sign in lyrics messes up line spacing

[Mats Bengtsson]

It turns out that you irregular spacing has nothing to do with the 
breathe signs.
The problem was that your setting of
\override Lyrics.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-0 . 0)
in \ScoreSettings only applied to the first line of lyrics (I was 
actually a bit
surprised that it applied to any of the Lyrics contexts at all).
Please read in the manual on how to do settings that apply to all Lyrics 
contexts
in a score, for example. Then, you will rather come up with something like
\layout {
   \context {
       \Score
       skipBars = ##t
   }
 \context {
   \Lyrics
   \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-0 . 0)
 }
}
as a replacement for your current \ScoreSettings. Then, you will see 
that the only
thing that affects the vertical distance between the lyric lines, is the 
comma signs
that extend slightly below the base line of the font.

   /Mats

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 09:47 schrieben Sie:
>   
> > I can't figure out exactly what you mean. Please post a small but complete
> > (i.e. runnable) example. 
> >     
>
> Okay, .ly and .pdf file attached. I want all lyrics line to have the same 
> small line spacing as the first two stanzas have.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
>
>   
> > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi,
> > > A while ago, I posted to this list about how to include a breathing sing
> > > into the lyrics (not into the staff), and Mats gave me the solution:
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-11/msg00532.html
> > >
> > > However, I'm still fighting with the issue (in lilypond 2.8.7), because
> > > that solution causes a rather large margin below that one lyrics line (it
> > > seems that for the calculation of line spacing the \raise is simply
> > > ignored).
> > >
> > > Is there any solution to this?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot,
> > > Reinhold
> > >
> > > PS: Sorry that I can't attach the test file to this posting, as the gmane
> > > webinterface does not allow you to attach files...
> > >       
>
>   
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> \version "2.7.40"
>
> \header { 
> 	title = "Breathe sign in lyrics"
>         composer = "Notice the different line spacing in the lyrics!"
> }
>
> ScoreSettings = {
>         \set Score.skipBars = ##t
>         \override Lyrics.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-0 . 0)
> }
>
> music = \relative c' { f  f f f | f f f f | f f f f | f f f f | f f f f | f f f 
> f | }
>
>
>
> VerseI = \lyricmode {   
> 	blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
> }
>
> VerseII = \lyricmode {  
> 	blah blah blah blah blah \markup{ ach, \raise #1.0 \musicglyph #"scripts.rcomma" }  blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
> }
>
> \score {
>         \context ChoirStaff <<
>                 \ScoreSettings
>                 \context Staff = women <<
>                         \context Voice = sopranos { \voiceOne << \music >> }
>                 >>
>                 \context Lyrics = sopranosI \lyricsto sopranos \VerseI
>                 \context Lyrics = sopranosII \lyricsto sopranos \VerseII
>                 \context Lyrics = sopranosIII \lyricsto sopranos \VerseI
>                 \context Lyrics = sopranosIV \lyricsto sopranos \VerseII
>                 
>                 \context Staff = men <<
>                         \context Voice = tenors { \voiceOne << \music >> }
>                 >>
>         >>
>
> }

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