Dev Team, I was wondering if you have any insight concerning the possibility of/complications with changing the default Y-offset of LyricText to be aligned on vertical center of the font's x-height. The Dynamics characters do something similar already (roughly aligned on the vertical center of Emmentaler's "m" glyph[1]), so why not lyrics? Seems like this would bring a visual improvement over the current Y-offset of zero (i.e., the font's baseline).
The "x-height" is a standard font metric found in the metadata of the text font, so you normally wouldn't need to calculate it on-the-fly (assuming the designer set it correctly), but maybe calculating it on-the-fly would be better, only reverting to the metadata value should the font not contain the "x" glyph (rare, I'm sure)? I guess this might only be helpful when you want the lyrics to be vertically centered between two staves (like in a hymnal), so maybe there's a better way to do this, like the Dynamics do, keeping its context mid-way between staves? Just some thoughts. Here's the relevant doc reference: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-within-systems#within_002dsystem-spacing-properties Thanks for all you do! - Abraham P.S. Also, why is LyricText.font-size = #1 by default? Why not #0? Not complaining. Just trying to understand. [1] I say "roughly" because DynamicText doesn't actually query the Y-extent of the "m" glyph. It has a hard-coded value that is close enough to match the mid-height of Emmentaler's "m" (see line 857 of scm/define-grobs.scm and line 972 of scm/output-lib.scm). _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
