> On 13 Jul 2025, at 04:03, James Teitsma <ja...@jamesteitsma.ca> wrote: > > Hi all: > > I'm new to Lilypond and just poking away to start. I'm a computer programmer > by trade, so I'm hopeful I'll be able to figure this out over the coming > weeks and months. > > I spent the afternoon trying to create an entry for a Psalter-Hymnal that > uses unison voice with a single stanza in the staves. > > I'm stuck on three things, all spacing-related: > 1) How can I move the initial note of each line to align about one inch in > from the left of the system? > 2) How can I eliminate the gap between the staves and the subsequent > text-only lyrics stanzas? > 3) How can I get the bar-line to appear at the end of the last stave, even > though I need ragged-right on for the rest of the piece?
James, Q3 was something I recently uncovered in the list archives and adapted for 2.24.0 just after I sent a similar inquiry myself https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2025-04/msg00049.html which I further changed for my use into endbar = { \overrideProperty Staff.BarLine.after-line-breaking #(lambda (grob) (let* ((sys (ly:grob-system grob)) (staff (ly:grob-object grob 'staff-symbol)) (half-thickness (/ (ly:staff-symbol-line-thickness staff) 2)) (cur-x (cdr (ly:grob-extent grob sys X))) (new-x (cdr (ly:grob-extent staff sys X))) (xoff (+ half-thickness (- new-x cur-x)))) (ly:grob-set-property! grob 'extra-offset (cons xoff 0)))) \bar "|." } so that I don’t have to keep spcifying the final bar type (\endbar \bar “|.”), but can suffice with only putting the variable ( \endbar ) at the end of the music. regarding Q2, no direct answer, but based on the docs you’d have to experiment with score-markup-spacing https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables kind regards, Hans
