On 18/06/2011, at 1:20 pm, Bill Mooney wrote: > As you can see in the attached example I have expanded the 'override' > completely - but, to achieve a satisfactory result both the (basic-distance . > ..) and (minimum-distance . ..) values have to be made equal otherwise one > overrides the other in the staff-lyrics spacing (see the second score) giving > somewhat unusual, sometimes, results. It would be nice to see it explicitly > stated somewhere in the Manual which has priority.
'basic-distance' is what you would like to have, 'minimum-distance' is the least you are willing to accept. I thought the explanation at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-_005cpaper-variables was very clear. Best wishes, Matthew _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
