Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-31 Thread Bill Mooney
Greetings Keith, Thanks for the comment. Do you have a special crystal ball there? Do you know if there is any particular reason why inter-system spacings are done in the \paper block but spacing between staves is dealt with using commands in the \Staff context (Have I got the terminology corre

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-31 Thread Keith E OHara
Hi, Bill. On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:30:17 -0700, Bill wrote: And it will require a fairly complex explanation in the docs to make it really clear, particularly to those users such as myself who need a good bit of hand-holding! I wouldn't say that. If not for the unfortunate timing, "Oops, shoul

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-30 Thread Bill Mooney
Greetings Keith, and others... Keith wrote... Actually, I'm trying to help clean up bugs in the spacing system, so I investigated this: >I've tried your sample file and still there is no >change whatsoever with the score-system-spacing values. I don't know >why --- The score-syste

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-30 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Keith E OHara wrote: Father Michael, I would consider Patrick's suggestion to be a good permanent method. Thank you, Keith, for your help. I must say all of you on the lilypond list are most helpful, patient and kind --- esp. with someone like me who knows very little about music and com

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-30 Thread Keith E OHara
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:04:58 -0700, Fr Gilmary wrote: As it is, the suggestion the other day from Patrick Karl works,i.e., to use:\markup { " " } in between the scores to spread them out more or less ... only it seems like a temporary type fix, no? Father Michael, I would consider Patrick's

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-30 Thread Orders at MHTM
Hi Bill: Thanks again for the help. I've tried your sample file and still there is no change whatsoever with the score-system-spacing values. I don't know why --- there's not even an error or warning ... everything runs fine, except no change. Now, if you or anyone else can say if there's anothe

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Mooney
Greetings Fr. Michael Gilmary The attached file "untitled.ly" might be of help. Regards Bill \header { title = "Title" piece = "score-system-spacing affects spacing between 'scores' - but not between Title and 1st score" } \paper { %Uncomment either or both of the next two lines and adjust

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-28 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Thanks to Xavier and Bill for the solutions offered. Now, at least, I've got v. 2.13.37 working, but I couldn't get Bill's system-system-spacing to work, though. No change was produced. And Xavier's score-system-spacing worked ... but /globally/. I looked at the Notation Ref. 4.4.1 about vertica

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-28 Thread James
Bill On 27/10/2010 21:29, Bill Mooney wrote: Would it be possible for the v2.13 docs to be expanded so that the full syntax of both "intra-system-spacing" and "extra-system-spacing" options is made explicit. Yes this is being done, but is still 'work-in-progress' (document patches have been

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-27 Thread Bill Mooney
fr. michael gilmary wrote... >> I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how >> to get extra vertical space between staves. Xavier Scheuer replied %%% My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running an old development version). Latest deve

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-27 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 27 October 2010 20:03, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: Hi: I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how to get extra vertical space between staves. My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running an old development version). Latest

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 October 2010 20:03, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > > Hi: > > I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how > to get extra vertical space between staves. My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running an old development version). Latest development version (2.13)

extra spacing between staves and verses

2010-10-27 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Hi: I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how to get extra vertical space between staves. Here's a sample doc: TimeKey= {\key f \major} FredMusic = \relative c' { a' bes c d } BarneyMusic = \relative c' { f g a bes } VerseOne = \lyricmode { La dee dee dah } V