Simon, On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Simon Albrecht-2 [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n188875...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
> On 23.03.2016 18:14, Abraham Lee wrote: > > 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). > […] > > I guess this might only be helpful when you want the lyrics to be > > vertically centered between two staves (like in a hymnal) > Thanks for your comments. > Why would anybody want that? The lyrics should be placed between the > skylines of the neighbouring lines, and I don’t see the point of any > exact v-centering. > I can count quite a few times where I have wanted this, not only with hymnal-like music either. I can't imagine I'm the only one, but maybe I am. This usually comes up when I want to center some lyrics between to PianoStaff staves. The normal centering puts the baseline equidistant between the staves, but there's an obviously larger amount of white-space below the lyrics than above. I understand the need to for taking skylines into account, but doesn't the Dynamics context do this, too? > If anything, Y-offset would be relevant for alignment with other items > on or next to the lyrics line. I don’t know how alignment with > LyricHyphen and LyricExtender is currently handled, and how that would > play with your suggestion; the only other item I can think of now is > StanzaNumber – which should of course normally have the same baseline as > the LyricText. > Agreed. Those would need to be considered, too. Best, Abraham -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Feature-Request-Align-lyrics-to-middle-of-font-x-height-instead-of-baseline-tp188874p188876.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
