On Thursday March 18 2004 20:57, Walter Hofmeister wrote: > On 3/18/04 11:23 AM, "Bertalan Fodor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the question is to achieve something like this: > > > > > > G > > C F -o- -o- C > > ------------------------ > > ----o-o--------------o-- > > ------------------o----- > > o-o--------------------- > > ------------------------ > > > > If you have a high note (or some lyrics for only some notes above the > > staff) the whole line of chords is shifted up to be in one line, like > > this: > > > > C F G C > > hel-lo > > -o- -o- > > ------------------------ > > ----o-o--------------o-- > > ------------------o----- > > o-o--------------------- > > ------------------------ > > Actually, I want them all in a line like example 2. If the notes are above > the staff, more clearance is required so that the chord names do not > collide with the notes. To accomplish this it is necessary to increase the > height of the chord names. But if on another line the notes are not so high > on the staff, the higher chord names will look odd because now there is a > lot of clearance between the staff and the chord names. > > > > C F G C > -o- -o- > --------------------------- > ------o-o------------------ > ------------------o-o------ > --o-o---------------------- > --------------------------- > > This is OK. > > C F G C > > > --------------------------- > ---------o----------------- > -----o-----o--------o------ > ---o---o------o---o-------- > -o--------------o---------- > > This looks odd. > > My question is: is there a way so that the first example can get the extra > clearance needed but also can the chord names in the second example be set > lower or closer to the staff? I am assuming that both these settings are in > the same .ly file. >
Staff.minimumVerticalExtent (as Mats Bengtsson stated) should be the adjustment that you care to play with. LilyPond by default does the following like you want; Staff.minimumVerticalExtent lets you control how much space it makes for the chords to begin with. _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
