Re: inter-staff distance / page header

[Tom Cloyd]

This is simply making me nuts. NOTHING I'm trying is having any effect 
on inter-staff distance at all.

Here's the current non-working attempt to increase the distance -

\score {
  \context Staff = "guitar" \with {
  \consists "Span_arpeggio_engraver"
  \override VerticalAxisGroup #'next-staff-spacing = #'((padding . 10))
  }
<<
  %\set Staff.instrumentName="Classical Guitar"  %puts name to left of 
line one
  \set Staff.midiInstrument="acoustic guitar (nylon)"
  \set Staff.connectArpeggios = ##t
  \context Voice = "melody" \melody
  \context Voice = "alto" \alto
  \context Voice = "bass" \bass
>>

 \layout {
   indent = 0.0\cm % remove indent on first staff
   }

 \midi { %causes generation of midi score
 }
}

The critical statement -

\override VerticalAxisGroup #'next-staff-spacing = #'((padding . 10))

I have not been able to get much information about. It seems not to be 
in the Notation manual index. I don't know what to set the padding value 
to - but changing it to extreme values doesn't seem to matter, so I must 
have it place wrong.

I could really use some help...

Thanks,

Tom


On 04/03/2010 01:56 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> My mistake. The problem isn't "collisions". It's inter-staff distance, 
> which I'm not finding a way to increase. Can you help me do that?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tom
>
> On 04/03/2010 12:47 AM, James Bailey wrote:
> > It may not help much, but I've just compiled the file with 2.13.17 
> > and had no collisions to speak of. For printing header information on 
> > every page, see section 3 of the notation reference. I even think 
> > that odd/even page header may work in the development version, 
> > although I'm not sure.
> >
> > On 03.04.2010, at 08:34, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> >
> > > Have just installed developmental ver.  "2.13.16" and run convert-ly 
> > > on all my scores.
> > >
> > > I got this CLI message when running the conversion:
> > >
> > > "Not smart enough to convert vertical spacing has been changed; 
> > > minimum-Y-extent is obsolete.
> > > Please refer to the manual for details, and update manually.2.13.16 "
> > >
> > > Not very helpful, at least not to me, because I don't know how to 
> > > fix the problem.
> > >
> > > All my staves are now vertically crowded. I've tried a number of 
> > > things to fix it - and now my head is completely muddled.
> > >
> > > I'm working out of the Notation manual section "4.1.2 Page 
> > > formatting" ...and nothing has worked. Hasn't had any effect at all, 
> > > in fact. I'm guessing I'm putting stuff in the wrong place. I'm 
> > > running out of time now.
> > >
> > > My code is here:
> > >
> > > http://pastie.org/901405
> > >
> > > It's only 5 lines of music, but they crowd into each other 
> > > unacceptably. It's free of any of my failed change attempts.
> > >
> > > So, two questions:
> > >
> > > 1. How can I get space between the staves?
> > >
> > > 2. Unrelated question: on scores (they're all for a single 
> > > instrument), is there yet any way to get a score title printed on 
> > > every page? Right now I'm using the "instrument = "Classical Guitar 
> > > 100329" " line. If this were not printed on page one, I could just 
> > > put the title and version date there, but it IS, so that's no 
> > > solution. My solution is a kludge, and it's OK, but is there a 
> > > better way?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > >
> > >
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