Re: Issue 1486 in lilypond: Lyrics above the first staff in a system are spaced too closely for the first system

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/22/11 3:36 AM, "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2011, um 19:13:54 schrieb address@hidden:
>> At any rate, I think that with the understanding that we need to 1) use
>> alignAboveContext for lyrics above a staff, and 2) make space for lyrics,
>> with top-system-spacing, system-system-spacing, system-bottom-spacing, and
>> default-staff-staff-spacing I think this becomes a Documentation bug (still
>> Critical).
> 
> Does this also work if one page has lyrics above the top staff, while another
> page does not? Or does the second page also reserve space for the non-existing
> lyrics on that page (which would be quite bad from my point of view)?

IIUC, the current spacing engine *never* reserves space for lyrics depending
on whether the lyrics are there or not.  It lays out the staves without
considering the lyrics, and then pushes the lyrics into the gaps between the
staves as best it can.

This came about because of requests to always have the staves in the same
place on each page, IIRC.  Staves were moving about because of lyrics, and
it was requested that lilypond stop doing that, so the new spacing was
devised.

Hence my thought that we might want to have the possibility of reverting to
the old behavior.

Thanks,

Carl