It seems to hand biasing advice to the 'springs' but isn't precise. I recall that it can't be used to reduce spacing. The need, as for vertical spacing of staves, is to be able to say "do exactly this!"
-----Original Message----- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 2:30 AM To: Fairchild Cc: 'David Bobroff'; lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Note chart Fairchild wrote: >There ought to be something equivalent to \hspace for stuff on the >staff. Several months ago I suggested this as a new feature but >received no response. > > It seems that you already found it: \once \override Score.SeparationItem #'padding = #2.0 /Mats _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user