Was using 'spacing' to refer to 'gap' as a general concept, rather than an LP term. But staff-padding fixes the issue. Thanks Ben and David.
'padding' is relative to the bounding box of a grob? On 18 April 2018 at 15:32, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Hickman <[email protected]> writes: > >> I am attempting to increase the spacing between a text block and the >> staff, which I have found can be done using >> \override TextScript.padding = ... > > That doesn't increase the _spacing_ but the padding. > >> However doing this changes the baseline of the text for some >> reason. > > It doesn't change the baseline at all. The additional padding may make > it necessary to shift the baseline in order to avoid collisions with > other scripts or objects. You likely want to change staff-padding > instead which is supposed to make room for the reference points rather > than the outlines. > > -- > David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
