Hello Reggie,
Why can't you just show us an MWE (Minimum Working Example) of your Lily code?
That would make helping you so much easier!
JM
> Le 22 janv. 2019 à 04:57, Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> a écrit :
>
> On 2019-01-21 6:17 pm, Reggie wrote:
>> For your information, top-system-spacing has zero effect on my Score. I have
>> my margins set all to a basic .75\in and this top-system-spacing has no
>> visible change. Why is this? What causes top-system-spacing to not show any
>> change? How should I be a detective and solve this? :))
>
> Is there any \markup above the \score? If so, then top-system-spacing will
> not apply. Instead, what will matter is a combination of top-markup-spacing
> and markup-system-spacing.
>
> Consider the following:
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.19.82"
>
> \paper {
> #(set-paper-size "a6")
> top-margin = 50\pt % eqv. to 10 staff spaces at default staff size
> left-margin = 50\pt
> indent = 0
> tagline = ##f
> ragged-bottom = ##t
>
> top-markup-spacing.basic-distance = 10 % staff spaces are the units here
> top-system-spacing.basic-distance = 30
> markup-system-spacing.basic-distance = 20
> score-markup-spacing.basic-distance = 15
> }
>
> ruler = \tweak color #red \tweak stencil #(lambda (grob)
> (ly:make-stencil (ly:stencil-expr (apply ly:stencil-add
> (map (lambda (n) (let ((t (if (zero? (modulo n 10)) 0.3 0.1))
> (x (+ 5 (if (zero? (modulo n 5)) 7 0)
> (if (zero? (modulo n 10)) 3 0))))
> (make-line-stencil t (- x) n x n)))
> (iota 61 -20)))) '(0 . 1) '(0 . 0))) \etc
>
> \markup { \fontsize #6 "top markup" }
> \new Staff { \mark \markup "after markup score" \ruler b'1 }
> \markup { \fontsize #6 "after score markup" }
> \pageBreak
> \new Staff { \mark \markup "top score" \ruler b'1 }
> \markup { \fontsize #6 "after score markup" }
> %%%%
>
> This replaces the whole notes on each staff with a bright red ruler measuring
> in staff spaces. You should be able to confirm all of the spacing distances
> as specified in the \paper block.
>
>
> -- Aaron Hill
>
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