Re: Issue 1483 in lilypond: Lyric alignment is wrong in 2.13.46

[lilypond]

Comment #11 on issue 1483 by address@hidden: Lyric alignment is  
wrong in 2.13.46
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1483

I agree with that, but don't have the spare 5 minutes to do it myself.   
I've just made this example:

\paper {
  system-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #20
  % between-system-space = 5 \cm
  % ragged-last-bottom = ##f
  }

\score {
  \new ChoirStaff <<
    \new Staff = women <<
      \new Voice = "sopranos" {
        \voiceOne
        fis4 fis fis fis | \break
        fis4 fis fis fis
      }
    \new Lyrics \with { alignAboveContext = "women" } {
      \lyricsto sopranos { La la la la la la la la }
    }
    >>
  >>
}

which uses the alternative way of putting lyrics above the staff, and as  
you can see, there isn't the extreme spacing problem with the other  
method.  I could live with the fix to this being a statement in the NR  
explaining how lyric placement is affected by how the lyric alignment is  
specified, given that the method I'm using here is an easy way to get well  
placed lyrics.

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