I've managed to fix it thankfully! > > I think placing a padding override at the Score block level breaks all other tweaks in the StaffGroup or Staff level.
Best, Dimitris On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:32 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > > Le 22/03/2021 à 20:13, Dimitris Marinakis a écrit : > > I'm having trouble with the vertical spacing of an orchestral score. > > One StaffGroup for some odd reason doesn't respond to any of the > > StaffGrouper overrides. (no other overrides used at the Staff level). > > > > It uses a hidden second stave. Problem is if I reduce the spacing > > between the two grouped staves when only the 1st staff is visible it > > messes the spacing... No matter what I do Lilypond wants to space the > > grouped staves very far apart which results in strange spacing in some > > busier pages. I've spent hours trying to figure out how to solve this > > problem. > > > > The file is big and has a lot of dependencies so I cannot even make a > > tiny example or even share the file itself since I'd have to force you > > to include the exact same fonts and all kinds of random included files. > > > > See the attached image. > > > > I know this post may be useless but if you have a lot of experience > > with Lilypond please contact me so I can share the file with you in > > private, even if it won't compile. > > > 1. Don't panic. LilyPond has a solution for everything. > > 2. In hopeless cases, you can always set the distances explicitly as > explained in > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/explicit-staff-and-system-positioning > > 3. What is wrong with this? > > \version "2.23.1" > > << > \new StaffGroup \with { > \RemoveAllEmptyStaves > \override StaffGrouper.staff-staff-spacing = > #'((basic-distance . 2) > (minimum-distance . 2) > (padding . 0) > (stretchability . 0)) > } << > \new Staff { c'1 \break c'1 } > \new Staff { r1 c'1 } > >> > \new StaffGroup << > \new Staff { c'1 c'1 } > \new Staff { c'1 r1 } > >> > >> > > 4. If you're in trouble, take a look at > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2019-07/msg00231.html > > It's an extensive example of spacing options that Harm posted some time > ago on this list. I have found it useful. > > Best, > Jean > >
