Sorry - I forgot to attach my example. Ralph
On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 10:50 AM Ralph Palmer <palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 9:01 AM Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ralph,
>> Am 05.09.21 um 17:45 schrieb Ralph Palmer:
>>
>> I would like to increase the space between the chord names and the
>> highest notes or top staff lines. I've looked in the LilyPond Snippets and
>> in the Snippets Repository, and can't find anything that helps. I'm
>> guessing it's a setting in spacing or padding, but I can't figure out which
>> setting.
>>
>> If the distance should be measured from the chord names to the highest
>> notes, as you describe, then .padding is the property you want to use:
>>
>> \score {
>> <<
>> \new ChordNames \with {
>> \override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.padding =
>> 2
>> } \Chords
>> \new Staff \Tune
>> >>
>> }
>>
>> Lukas
>>
>
> Uhh. . . This is great except for the alternative endings. Without going
> too crazy, is there a way to get the chord names above the alternative
> ending spanners?
>
> Ralph
>
>
>
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Ralph Palmer
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\version "2.23.2"
\language "english"
\paper {
#(set-paper-size "letter")
top-margin = 0.5\in
score-markup-spacing = #'((padding . 2))
page-count = #1
}
#(set-global-staff-size 20.0)
Tune =
\relative c'' {
\clef treble
\key c \major
\time 2/2
\repeat volta 2 {
a4 b c d |
e d c b |
b4 c d e |
f g a b |
c b a g |
f e d c |
\break
d4 d d d |
d d d d |
d d d d |
d d d d |
}
\alternative {
{ d d d d | }
{ d d d d | }
}
}
Chords = \chordmode {
a1 b c b a b
a1 b c b a b
}
\score {
<<
\new ChordNames \with {
\override VerticalAxisGroup.nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.padding = 2
} \Chords
\new Staff \Tune
>>
}
ChordStaffExampleTwo.pdf
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