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To increase the spacing between lyrics, set the minimum-distance property of LyricSpace.
{
c c c c
\override Lyrics.LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #1.0
c c c c
}
\addlyrics {
longtext longtext longtext longtext
longtext longtext longtext longtext
}
To make this change for all lyrics in the score, set the property in the layout.
\score {
{
c c c c
c c c c
}
\addlyrics {
longtext longtext longtext longtext
longtext longtext longtext longtext
}
\layout {
\context {
\Lyrics
\override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #1.0
}
}
}
This page is for LilyPond-2.8.8 (stable-branch).