Calculation of odd lyrics line height and starting point doesn’t take font size and line height of even lyrics lines into account and vice versa.

Issue type

Engraving bug (incorrect score rendering)

Description with steps to reproduce

1. Enter four verses of lyrics (one note is enough)
2. In Format > Style > Text styles > Lyrics even lines, increase the font size to ~16 pt
3. Verse 2 lyrics are now overlapping verse 3 lyrics and the distance between verse 3 and verse 4 is disproportionately large

Expected behaviour: equal distance between all verses

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

Lyrics line height.mscz.zip

098. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing.mscz.zip

In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

3.6.2 – 4.7.3, 4.7.4 latest nightly, main latest nightly

Regression

No.

Operating system

Windows 11, macOS 26.5

Additional context

Came up and was discussed in https://musescore.org/en/node/393558

Original poster was using odd lines for pinyin (set in Microsoft Himalaya) and even lines for Chinese (set in PingFang SC). The behaviour is the same for any font that uses different sizes for odd and even lines, but the inherent size of Chinese characters aggravates the problem.

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