Apologies. I have no idea why, but this afternoon my code appeared to have no effect on the spacing; this evening it works. Yet I haven't changed a thing. Clearly something changed, but I have no idea what.
At least my original thought that "this ought to work" was correct! David -----Original Message----- From: David Sumbler <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: shortInstrumentName vertical spacing Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:02:14 +0100 In string parts, I often use more than one stave where a section is divisi. I write, for instance, \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = "2." when one player (or sub-section) is required, or \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = \markup \column { "3." "4." } if two players need to play this line. The default settings are fine for this. But I have a stave now which applies to 3 players. If I put \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = \markup \column { "2." "3." "4." } it takes up rather too much space vertically, so I want to move the numbers closer together. But nothing I have tried so far makes the slightest difference. My latest version is: \set Staff.shortInstrumentName = \markup { \override #'(baseline-skip . 6) \column { "2." "3." "4." } } I felt sure that this would work, but it doesn't. ("6" is a value just for testing - obviously the value I want actually to use will be much smaller.) What am I doing wrong? David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
