Re: Difficult layout questions

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Dominic,

> 1. The offset between the lyriclines is a bit too high. Is there an
> easy way to reduce it?

\layout { \context { \Lyrics \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y- 
extent = #'(a . b) } }

> 2. I use the \set stanza = "1. " command within \lyricmode to set the
> versnumber and to set the point where the refrain begins ("Refr. ").
> When using the long string "Refr. " it sometimes sticks out of the
> left boundary.
> A similar problem occurs when typesetting longer syllables. Then the
> sometimes stick out of the right boundary what looks quite ugly.

See docs for #'keep-inside-line.

> 3. Sometimes the hyphen between syllables shrinks that much that it
> looks like a dot. As this does not look good I´d like to define a
> minimum length for such hyphens. Is this possible?

You can certainly \override the #'minimum-distance and #'minimum- 
length properties.
As for actually setting a LyricHyphen #'minimum-X-extent, I don't  
know if that's possible.

> 4. Is it at all possible to move particular syllables a bit to the  
> left or right?

I use
        \once \override LyricText #'X-offset
whenever I need to nudge a lyric.

Hope this helps!
Kieren.