Re: Vertically centered refrain

Dear Helge,

I have a song with an even number of stanzas. I want to have the refrain
> in the vertical mid of all stanzas. In this case it's necessary to move
> the text in one verse up or down. It would be preferred to find an
> automatic calculation to find the best location, but I tried at least a
> manual adjustment. Unfortunately it works only with the characters, not
> wit the hyphen. How can I make this better?
>

I think that this snippet has a solution for you:

https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Vertically_centered_common_lyrics

(or)

Vertically centered common lyrics (LilyPond snippets)
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.26/Documentation/snippets/vocal-music-_002d-vertically-centered-common-lyrics>

As you’ll see there in the dropLyrics command definition, the key is to
override extra-offset for multiple elements, not just LyricText.

Cheers,

Gabriel

PS In case helpful: I found this snippet by going to
https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Special:Categories, which is now
accessible from the home page of https://wiki.lilypond.community.