Sorry about posting off list. I hit reply assuming it would go to lilypond-user.
You are correct - the \cm specification is not necessary. I start seeing results - notable separation between score1 and score2 with score-system-spacing.basic-distance set around 12 or so. I get my desired spacing with a value of 15. Do you know what the relationship is between system-system-spacing and score-systems-spacing. Does one have precedence over the other? In paper-defaults-init.ly system-system-spacing.basic-distance is set to 12 while score-system-spacing.basic-distance is set to 14. It's interesting that I don't see an effect until I reach or exceed system-system-spacing.basic-distance. Thanks again for the help. -steve On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 4:41 PM Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > first of all: please keep conversation on-list, except if privacy is > actually necessary. > > > On 22.07.2017 23:49, Stephen Nesbitt wrote: > > I actually did see the score-system-spacing in the > > flexible-vertical-spacing-paper at > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables > , > > but was unable to get it to work - or more accurately - get it to do > > anything. > > > > I tried again adding score-system-spacing.basic-distance = 10\cm to > > the \paper block and now its working. I suspect that I don't really > > understand what a staff-space is and the values I used didn't result > > in any change. Changing to centimeters did something. > > Did ‘something’? Did it actually insert 10 cm of space? > Maybe try again without the \cm, but with a (ridiculously) large number > like 50 to see if it actually does anything. Staff-spaces, the distance > between two normal staff-lines, are the basic measuring unit in > LilyPond. This allows scaling everything along with the music. > > > Also note that I think there is a typo in the example given with the > > update one key-value example shown as > > *system-system-spacing.basic-distance = #8*. Shouldn't it be > > *score-system-spacing.basic-distance = #8?* > > system-system-spacing is a thing as well, and all those flexible > vertical spacing properties work basically the same, only with different > values. > > HTH, Simon >
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