Re: Vertical alignment of Chords - Feature / Bug???

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 12/18/08 9:46 PM, "Andrew Hawryluk" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Carl,
>> 
>>> For me, it's the lyrics context that should not use skylining.  We should
>>> keep everything (dynamics, notes, etc) out of the lyrics line.
>> 
>> Excellent point < I wholeheartedly concur!
>> Kieren.
>> 
> 
> For the few times that this does happens, is it worth changing the
> default? The example in the OP clearly needs to be changed, but
> attached is a case where the skylining is much less distracting. It's
> just a piano chord that sneaks into the space between lyrics and saves
> a lot of space.
> 

I think you're right.  Also, it is common in vocal music that dynamics do
interleave with the lyrics.  So I retract my previous suggestion.

I've determined that the thing to do is to change the
outside-staff-horizontal-padding property for the ChordName grob.


Carl