Spacing between Lyrics and Chordnames

[Randy Josleyn]

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to increase the spacing between the bottom line of lyrics and
the ChordNames in the next system.

My score looks like the MWE below. I played with example below and even
without the ChordNames, the override doesn't behave as I expected it would.
I checked the IR and it says nonstaff-unrelatedstaff-spacing.padding is
set, so I assumed changing it would change the distance.

I also tried setting the same setting on ChordNames, but it similarly had
no effect on the spacing.

%%%%%%% MWE %%%%%%%%
\version "2.23.8"

\score {
    <<
        %\new ChordNames { \repeat unfold 4 { c1 c f g } }
        \new Staff { \new Voice = "vox" \repeat unfold 16 { c'2 e'4 g' } }
        \new Lyrics = A \lyricsto "vox" { \lyricmode { Line __ _ _ _  one,
_ _ _  line one! } }
        %\new Lyrics = B \lyricsto "vox" { \lyricmode { Line __ _ _ _  two,
_ _ _  line two! } }
        %\new Lyrics = C \lyricsto "vox" { \lyricmode { Line __ _ _ _
 three, _ _ _  line three! } }
        %\new Lyrics = D \lyricsto "vox" { \lyricmode { Line __ _ _ _
 four, _ _ _  line four! } }
    >>
    \layout {
        \context {
            \Lyrics
            \override VerticalAxisGroup.
                      nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing.padding = #5
            \override VerticalAxisGroup.
                      nonstaff-unrelatedstaff-spacing.padding = #5
        }
    }
}
%%%%%% END MWE %%%%%%%%%%
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Can anyone make any suggestions to help me increase the space from the
bottom of the lyrics of one system and the top of the next system?

Thanks!

Regards,


Randy