On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 07:17 -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > > On 6/19/10 6:27 AM, "Kieren MacMillan" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Joe, > > > >> if you set padding then it will affect the amount of whitespace > >> between the last staff of the ChoirStaff and the first staff > >> of the PianoStaff (and not the amount of whitespace > >> between the Lyrics and the PianoStaff). > > > > That's what it appears to do... which is (IMO) non-intuitive and > > unfortunate. > > In particular, the presence [or not] of Lyrics -- i.e., depending on whether > > the last system has multi-measure rests, or notes and lyrics -- means that > > in > > some systems the spacing to the PianoStaff is based on ChoirStaff > > #'after-last-staff-spacing, whereas in some systems (with notes and lyrics) > > the spacing is based on Lyrics #'non-affinity-spacing. > > Umm, I don't think that's what Joe said. I think Joe said that the spacing > between ChoirStaff and the PianoStaff is determined by > 'after-last-staff-spacing, and the Lyrics fit in the gap. I know that's how > it worked in my lyrics spacing test runs.
That's right. The only effect of the Lyrics is that it demands a certain amount of minimum space between the ChoirStaff and the PianoStaff. But I think this discussion would be clearer if you could provide an example to show what you want to achieve. Cheers, Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
