Adjust vertical lyric distance to stave automatically?
Hi there,
I want to add lyrics to my scores and in most of them I've noticed that the text overlaps with other elements (notes, slurs, crescendo, etc.) like in this example I've just made:
Now I know I can adjust all lyrics by hand by inserting spacers in every line to make them a bit taller and then dragging the lyrics a bit downward. But this seems too laborious because it's quite a common problem – I'm sure practically everybody that writes lyrics in musescore experiences this. So I can't imagine musescore can't figure out what offset the lyrics line needs to not overlap with other elements in the line. Is there some "automatic vertical lyric offset" checkbox that I'm missing? How do you fix those overlaps in your scores?
Best Regards,
Manu
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A few things.
First, I try to set a reasonable default distances. If the part uses a lot of ledger lines below the staff, I set the staff distance, system distance, and lyric margins such that there are few collisions. If this results in too much space in other places, I';ll reduce the defaults a little, and then when collisions occur, I simply move the syllables downwoard and/or to the side. I never use spacers to add more space between those staves; I prefer to have constant distance. So I live with staves that are sometimes further apart than necessary.
In reply to A few things. First, I try to by Marc Sabatella
Yes, thank you! That's how I'm going to do it. I, too like constant distances.
I just hadn't found the parameter in the settings that allows changing the lyrics distance for the whole project. Works nicely.
In reply to Yes, thank you! That's how by DerManu
There are actually a few: in the style / edit general style / page, there is lyric upper and lower margin, but there is also style / edit text style / lyric odd/even lines, the "Y" parameter. I've never really experimented to see exactly how they all interrelate. But what I do know is that text styles don't affect existing lyrics, only new lyrics, whereas the margin settings affect everything. So my templates use default values for all of these that work in general, but when I encounter a reason to need my lyrics moved down, it's usually after I have already started, so I try to see if I can do what I want with margins.