Re: wanted: title inter-item spacing tips/suggestions

2010-04-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Robin, > But maybe you would like to try out my millimetres version of vspace [...] > This mm-feed command was intended for use as standalone markup, > but you could use it in a header by tacking it onto an item with [...] > as in > dedication = \markup \put-mm #DOWN #10 "dedicated to me"

Re: wanted: title inter-item spacing tips/suggestions

2010-04-04 Thread Robin Bannister
Kieren MacMillan wrote: Any tips/suggestions on best practice(s) would be appreciated. I don't presume to know about best practice, but I suspect it doesn't include negative spacing. It's too easy to ask for nonsensical intervals and then Lilypond quietly discards the whole markup, e.g.

wanted: title inter-item spacing tips/suggestions

2010-04-03 Thread Kieren MacMillan
[Lilypond 2.13.17] Hi all, I'm trying to get a good bookTitleMarkup and scoreTItleMarkup setup... Basically, all is well. But it's a pain to set/tweak the inter-item spacing -- for example, between a dedication and title -- because of [at least] the following issues: 1. \override #'(basel