Thank you for this Bert, much appreciated. Now finally I feel I have full control over lyrics placement and inter staff spacing. I sing tenor you see, so I look at this staff rather a lot.
Warren Stickney Wellington, New Zealand Lily 2.0.1 Cygwin Replying to your: > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:07:34 +0100 > From: "Fodor Bertalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: verticalExtent and minimumVerticalExtent > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I founded some important but not very well documented feature. It is > important when you use G_8 clef with lyrics, because using the same > minimumVerticalExtent, the lyrics won't be in the same distance from the > staff, as with a G or F clef (it is because the 8 in the clef). > > If you want to set the vertical extent of a staff independently of the > staff's contents you can use the property verticalExtent but it is limited > to values set by minimumVerticalExtent, unless the latter is set to ##f. > > So to have any vertical extent of your choice you should write: > > \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = ##f > \set Staff.verticalExtent = #'(-4 . 6) > > > Bert _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
