Aaron Hill wrote > On 2019-01-16 2:04 pm, Reggie wrote: >> Please can you help me? I cannot move just ONE staff in a system, it's >> moving THE system as a unit which is wrong. I am so sad. What did I >> break? >> How difficult is it to just move ONE staff without moving anything else >> in >> the score pages? I just want to learn how to adjust the middle staff >> not >> system as example here. > > Wow... no wonder you're having trouble. I just tried to work through > the relevant section of the documentation [1] and found that it largely > does not work as stated. Well, to be more specific, I could get some > partial results using 2.18.2 via lilybin.com, however my local copy of > 2.19.82 fails to render the examples as documented. There are > definitely some bugs here that need to be addressed, but let us move > that discussion to another thread. > > [1]: > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/explicit-staff-and-system-positioning > > Getting back to your issue at hand, there are some options. Firstly, > the property (and only property) you want to control is > alignment-distances. That one appears to be the only one that can > reliably apply to an individual staff within a system. Consider the > following: > > %%%% > \version "2.19.82" > \layout { indent = 0 } > << > \new Staff \repeat unfold 6 b'1 > \new Lyrics \repeat unfold 3 \lyricmode > { Lo4 -- rem ip -- sum do8 -- lor sit a -- met2 } > > \new Staff << > \new Voice { > s1*2 \break > \overrideProperty > Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details > #'((alignment-distances . (5 15))) > s1*2 \break > s1*2 \break > } > > \new Voice \repeat unfold 24 b'4 > >> > > \new Staff \repeat unfold 12 b'2 >>> > %%%% > > This example will look odd but it is to show a critical point. When > setting the alignment-distances, you must be careful with the values you > use. Too small of a value will result in overlapping as can be seen. > It is important to note that non-staff lines such as lyrics do not count > here. The distance you are specifying is relative to the prior staff. > > Because of that, I would consider the approach above rather fragile. It > may end up working for you, but be aware that it will take continued > maintenance when other aspects of the music change. As such, here is > another option to consider: > > %%%% > \version "2.19.82" > \layout { indent = 0 } > verticalSpacer = -\markup \with-color #red \draw-line #'(0 . 8) > << > \new Staff \repeat unfold 6 b'1 > \new Lyrics \repeat unfold 3 \lyricmode > { Lo4 -- rem ip -- sum do8 -- lor sit a -- met2 } > > \new Staff << > \new Voice { > s1*2 \break > s1*2_\verticalSpacer \break > s1*2 \break > } > > \new Voice \repeat unfold 24 b'4 > >> > > \new Staff \repeat unfold 12 b'2 >>> > %%%% > > All we are doing here is using some dummy markup to create a placeholder > object to force LilyPond to space things how we want. Note that I > colored the object red so it would be more clear where the placeholder > object is. This would be a good idea while you are working on the > piece, but for the final version you would replace "\with-color #red" > with "\transparent". > > The advantage of a placeholder is that all of the elements of the score > still remain relative to each other. Should changes to the music cause > it to reflow, you have less work to do to maintain desired spacing. I > also think this technique gives you more control. > > > -- Aaron Hill > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list
> lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > spacing.ex1.png (107K) > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/attachment/218899/0/spacing.ex1.png> > spacing.ex2.png (109K) > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/attachment/218899/1/spacing.ex2.png> Thank you for seeing what I mean. I felt so stupid reading it like I was crazy. I understand your idea about the redline markup however I have few questions please. First, are you saying that every time I want to manually adjust one staff in a system in one instance I must create a new voice just to hack this? Like you did? What about my original code itself used? Second, you mention that it's relative from PRIOR staff right? What if I want to move the top staff of a system up or down only for example as such? -- 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
