2010/11/3 Keith E OHara
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:19:32 -0700, Jan Warchoł <
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As for me the attached settings work quite well. In particular your Lyric
spacing settings didn't produce good results when lyrics were centered
between two staves, so I changed them.
Good. I was expecting that you would increase the 'padding between individual words in Lyrics and individual notes or dynamics on the lower staff. This keeps the lyrics away from dynamics for lower vocal staff (image). But you made smaller the 'minimum-distance between a Lyrics line and the next lower staff. If there is a staff below the lyrics with no notes or dynamics, the lyrics could get very close (second image).
I don't fully understand... Are you refering to the lyricsStaff.png picture? The lyrics in it surely are quite close to the lower staff, but i wouldn't say that they're too close.
I think we still want enough 'minimum-distance to the lower staff so that Lyrics are always a little closer to the Staff they are associated with, than they are to the next lower staff.
Yes, but i had some problems with this. When i tried compiling the attached score with your settings, LilyPond put the lyrics too high. In this case they should be centered (because they apply to both staves) and i told LilyPond to do so:
\new Lyrics \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-affinity = #CENTER }
but the result was wrong.
Is that what you intended, or do people reading choral music like to have lyrics centered between the two staves?
My other question is about your reduction in the stretchability between systems. Was the goal to let the staves separate more (maybe to have more space around the Lyrics) or was the goal to keep the gap between systems small?
My goal was to have between-system spacing and between-staves spacing balanced, so that there would't be a situation in which the systems are put far apart from themselves but inside them spaves are spaced like in a ragged-bottom.
Maybe our scores differ so much that there are no settings good for all of them.
cheers,
Janek
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