Hi Torsten, Thank you, that makes so much sense now. I was definitely struggling to understand how the various spacing settings work together, especially between VerticalAxisGroup and StaffGrouper.
Thanks, Nathan On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 5:49 AM, Torsten Hämmerle <torsten.haemme...@web.de> wrote: > Nathan Sprangers wrote > > If it helps, my interest is in creating band scores, which usually place > > an > > extra bracket or brace around certain families (such as the clarinets, > > cornets, etc in Holst's First Suite for Military Band > > <http://imslp.org/wiki/First_Suite_for_Military_Band, > _Op.28_No.1_(Holst,_Gustav)>), > > but there is typically no extra space around these staff groups. > > > Hi Nathan, > > Concerning the spacing "around" staff-groups: > By default, LilyPond tries to keep staff-groups closer together in general. > When stretching has to be applied this becomes particularly obvious. > > As in Holst's example (Military Band, i.e. Wind Band), it is common to have > uniform vertical spacing just ignoring groups or sub-groups. > > This can be achieved fairly easy: > By setting VerticalAxisGroup.staff-staff-spacing of \Staff (a single > stand-alone stave, the lowest level in grouping hierarchy) to the values > found in the staff-grouper (in my example, I've used the default values). > > \layout { > \context { > \Staff > \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-staff-spacing = > #'((bavsic-distance . 9) > (minimum-distance . 7) > (padding . 1) > (stretchability . 5)) > } > } > > If set, these values will be automatically used even within different > groups > in the hierarchy. > Background: VerticalAxisGroup.staff-staff-spacing is *not* specified by > default and do by default, the spacing values will be "inherited" depending > on the level of hierarchy. > > > To demonstrate this, I've chosen a very small global-staff-size and > deliberately forced stretching. Using Acrobat Reader's measuring feature, > I've marked the gaps between the staves (see attached PDF). > > *Default vertical spacing* - vertical spacing between groups differs > depending on grouping level. > test-uniform-vertical-spacing-default.pdf > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t3887/test- > uniform-vertical-spacing-default.pdf> > > *Uniform vertical spacing* by explicitly setting > Staff.VerticalAxisGroup.staff-staff-spacing > test-uniform-vertical-spacing-proof.pdf > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t3887/test- > uniform-vertical-spacing-proof.pdf> > > In the second example, applying the layout changes just on in the \Staff > context, there is absolutely the same vertical distance between all staves, > ignoring any grouping. > > Cheerio, > Torsten > > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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