Re: Vertical Spacing with Tuplets and Lyrics

[Stu McKenzie]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at 22:18, Mogens Lemvig Hansen <mogens@kayju.com> 
wrote:
> > > It struck we as weird to put the lyrics inside the DrumStaff, so I tried 
> > > something closer to what I would have done for a choir:
> > >
> > > \score {
> > >
> > >    <<
> > >
> > >      \new DrumStaff <<
> > >
> > >        \new DrumVoice { \voiceOne \CyBars }
> > >
> > >        \new DrumVoice { \voiceTwo \DrBars }
> > >
> > >      >>
> > >
> > >      \new Lyrics { \PrOne }
> > >
> > >    >>
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Looks better to my eye.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Mogens
> > Yet if the lyrics are something as:
> >
> > PrOne = \lyricmode {
> >    \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
> >    \skip 1 "Lyrics for introduction"1
> >    \skip 2 "Lyrics for introduction"2
> >    \skip 1. "Lyrics for introduction"2
> >    \skip 1. "Lyrics for introduction"2
> >    \skip 1. "Lyrics for introduction"2
> > }
> >
> > They still clash with the tuplet bracket.
> >
> > I think the problem is caused by Lilypond putting too many systems on
> > the page (have no idea why). The verbose output says
> > 'warning: compressing over-full page by 15.2 staff-spaces
> > warning: page 1 has been compressed'.
> >
> > I added \paper { max-systems-per-page = 12 } and it seems to work as it should.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lib

On 2023-06-20 13:59, Lib Lists wrote:
> Maybe even better than writing explicitly the number of systems per page,
> \paper { page-breaking-system-system-spacing.padding = 2 }
> (https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/paper-variables-for-page-breaking)
> seems to work.
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at 23:44, Lib Lists <listslib@gmail.com> wrote:

Mogens and Libs, thanks for your input.

Mogens, that's a very good suggestion to separate the lyrics, but still, 
the lyrics are very close to the staves.

Libs, both of the paper statements apply to all staves, so there is 
still too much space when there are no lyrics.

I think paper seems to be too global, I thought there would be something 
that could control individual staves.