Re: Line spacing (leading) of verses in a hymn

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-11-27 1:32 pm, Matthew Fong wrote:
> After some searching on the Internet, and looking at the LyricsText
> engraver, I was not able to find
> anything; VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.padding
> definitely was not it.

VerticalAxisGroup definitely is it.  You are just using the wrong 
spacing parameter.  Lyrics are a "nonstaff" item, so you need to adjust 
nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing.  Also, you do not want padding, as that is 
the distance between ink.  You need basic-distance, which for Lyrics is 
measured from baseline to baseline.

%%%%
\version "2.20.0"

\score {
  <<
    \new Staff \new Voice = melody { b'8 8 g'4 a'2 }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto melody { Lo -- rem ip -- sum }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto melody { Lo -- rem ip -- sum }
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Lyrics
      \override LyricText.font-size =
        % Default font-size is 11pt.  Scale to 10pt.
        #(magnification->font-size 10/11)
      \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing =
        % Default staff space is 5pt.  Scale to 12pt.
        #'((basic-distance . 12/5) (minimum-distance . 0)
           (padding . 0) (stretchability . 0))
    }
  }
}
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill