Re: Spacing between staves

e slightly increased vertical spacing between staves. (It has 32nd and even a few 64th notes, and just looks a little "bunched up" to my eyes.) I can only see ways to set the vertical spacing globally in the \paper block. What I am

Re: Spacing between staves

Hi Peter, On Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:44:56 EDT Peter Mayes wrote: > What I want is for the second movement, on the second page, to have > slightly increased vertical spacing between staves. (It has 32nd and > even a few 64th notes, and just looks a little "bunched up" to m

Re: Spacing between staves

.. } > > FirstMovement = { ... } > > \score { >\new Staff { \FirstMovement } >\layout {} > } > \pageBreak > SecondMovement = { ... } > > \score { >\new Staff { \SecondMovement } >\layout {} > } > > What I want is for the second movement, on the sec

Spacing between staves

t; \paper { ... } FirstMovement = { ... } \score {   \new Staff { \FirstMovement }   \layout {} } \pageBreak SecondMovement = { ... } \score {   \new Staff { \SecondMovement }   \layout {} } What I want is for the second movement, on the second page, to have slightly increased vertical spacing betw

Re: Moving fingering, spacing between staves

On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 8:04 AM David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 09 Sep 2022 at 10:38:24 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > Le 07/09/2022 à 01:00, Knute Snortum a écrit : > > > In order to avoid the AB problem, > > > > What do you call by "AB problem"? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem >

Re: Moving fingering, spacing between staves

On Fri 09 Sep 2022 at 10:38:24 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > Le 07/09/2022 à 01:00, Knute Snortum a écrit : > > In order to avoid the AB problem, > > What do you call by "AB problem"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem > > what I'm trying to do is move some > > fingering down in the

Re: Moving fingering, spacing between staves

He may mean the XY question! :-) [I am also wondering...] Andrew On 9/09/2022 6:38 pm, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Hi, Le 07/09/2022 à 01:00, Knute Snortum a écrit : In order to avoid the AB problem, What do you call by "AB problem"?

Re: Moving fingering, spacing between staves

Hi, Le 07/09/2022 à 01:00, Knute Snortum a écrit : In order to avoid the AB problem, What do you call by "AB problem"? what I'm trying to do is move some fingering down in the system, but the problem I run into is I get too much space between staves. Here is a MWE: [...] I've attached

Moving fingering, spacing between staves

In order to avoid the AB problem, what I'm trying to do is move some fingering down in the system, but the problem I run into is I get too much space between staves. Here is a MWE: %%% \version "2.23.12" moveFingerB = { \override Fingering.X-offset = -0.5 \override Fingering.Y-extent = #'(2

Re: Excessive spacing between staves with \MarkLine

It works perfectly on the test file. On the real score it prints just the tempo marks in the first system, I don't understand why... Anyway, I will write the second tempo as a markup. Thanks a lot! F. Il giorno gio 20 ago 2020 alle ore 20:31 Kieren MacMillan ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > Thanks for

Re: Excessive spacing between staves with \MarkLine

Hi, > Thanks for the reply. > It removes the blank space, but, unfortunately, the tempo marks too! Oops! \RemoveAllEmptyStaves keepAliveInterfaces = #'( metronome-mark-interface ) That should do it. =) Cheers, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer

Re: Excessive spacing between staves with \MarkLine

Thanks for the reply. It removes the blank space, but, unfortunately, the tempo marks too! Il giorno gio 20 ago 2020 alle ore 19:13 Kieren MacMillan ha scritto: > > Hi Francesco, > > > Unfortunately, a tempo change produces a lot of space upon the bottom > > staff, until the last tempo mark. > >

Re: Excessive spacing between staves with \MarkLine

Hi Francesco, > Unfortunately, a tempo change produces a lot of space upon the bottom > staff, until the last tempo mark. Try > \layout { > \context { >\name "MarkLine" >\type "Engraver_group" \RemoveAllEmptyStaves ... That seems to work for me. Hope that helps! Kieren.

Excessive spacing between staves with \MarkLine

Hi everyone. In typesetting chamber music with accompaniment, I would like to print the tempo marks on the bottom staff. Unfortunately, a tempo change produces a lot of space upon the bottom staff, until the last tempo mark. I think that a similar issue has already been discussed two years ago

independent horizontal spacing between staves

I have a piece in which each performer reads from a score with the other players' staves shrunk. I have determined that the different staff sizes are the cause of some very bad horizontal spacing that is especially noticeable when players have different simultaneous tuplets. The other parts are

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

Hi all, > Rather than inserting invisible music, I usually add the following as a > markup somewhere > ^\markup { \null \vspace #N } > and then adjust increase N to taste. Works very reliably for me. This (adjustment of vertical and horizontal spacing) is one of the areas where the

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

tisimst wrote > Rather than inserting invisible music, I usually add the following as a > markup somewhere > > ^\markup { \null \vspace #N } > > and then adjust increase N to taste. Works very reliably for me. > > HTH, > Abraham Wow. This is so awesome, it works beautifully! Thank you Abraham!

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

Michael, et al, On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 4:40 AM, SoundsFromSound wrote: > Michael Rivers wrote > > When I run into this problem, I just print an invisible note somewhere > > that > > forces more space between the staves. I believe I read about that > solution > >

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

Michael Rivers wrote > When I run into this problem, I just print an invisible note somewhere > that > forces more space between the staves. I believe I read about that solution > somewhere on this forum years ago. Hi Michael, I never even thought of that idea, actually that sounds pretty handy

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 10:20 -0700, Michael Rivers wrote: > When I run into this problem, I just print an invisible note > somewhere that forces more space between the staves. I believe I read > about that solution somewhere on this forum years ago. Thanks; that sounds an excellent idea. It's one

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

When I run into this problem, I just print an invisible note somewhere that forces more space between the staves. I believe I read about that solution somewhere on this forum years ago. -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

On 11/11/2017 8:36 AM, David Sumbler wrote: On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 13:05 -0500, Ben wrote: On 11/10/2017 12:49 PM, David Sumbler wrote: Is there some way of increasing or specifying the space between the 2 staves of a piano staff at a particular point in a score? The piece I am setting has a

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 13:05 -0500, Ben wrote: > On 11/10/2017 12:49 PM, David Sumbler wrote: > > Is there some way of increasing or specifying the space between the > > 2 > > staves of a piano staff at a particular point in a score? > > > > The piece I am setting has a lot of cross-staff beams,

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

On 11/10/2017 12:49 PM, David Sumbler wrote: Is there some way of increasing or specifying the space between the 2 staves of a piano staff at a particular point in a score? The piece I am setting has a lot of cross-staff beams, and sometimes Lilypond does not allow enough space between the

Re: Increasing spacing between staves

On 11/10/2017 12:49 PM, David Sumbler wrote: Is there some way of increasing or specifying the space between the 2 staves of a piano staff at a particular point in a score? The piece I am setting has a lot of cross-staff beams, and sometimes Lilypond does not allow enough space between the

Increasing spacing between staves

Is there some way of increasing or specifying the space between the 2 staves of a piano staff at a particular point in a score? The piece I am setting has a lot of cross-staff beams, and sometimes Lilypond does not allow enough space between the staves for a decent- looking beam.  In those cases

Re: Independent rhythmic spacing between staves?

Hi Saul, > In my current project, I have a situation where the piano has fast arpeggios > at the same time as the strings play a steady, slower rhythm (see attached > screenshot). My feeling is that the best looking solution would be to > temporarily sacrifice rhythmic alignment between the

Re: Independent rhythmic spacing between staves?

On 22.10.2017 00:43, Saul Tobin wrote: In my current project, I have a situation where the piano has fast arpeggios at the same time as the strings play a steady, slower rhythm (see attached screenshot). My feeling is that the best looking solution would be to temporarily sacrifice rhythmic

Re: Independent rhythmic spacing between staves?

Hi Saul, For a bar or two here and there, maybe experiment with scaling durations: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/writing-rhythms#scaling-durations Make the the first two quavers shorter and the next four longer. Work it out so it all adds up. Vaughan On 22 October 2017

Temporary independent rhythmic spacing between staves?

Hi all, In my current project, I have a situation where the piano has fast arpeggios at the same time as the strings play a steady, slower rhythm (see screenshot). My feeling is that the best looking solution would be to temporarily sacrifice rhythmic alignment between the piano part and the rest

Temporary independent rhythmic spacing between staves?

Hi all, In my current project, I have a situation where the piano has fast arpeggios at the same time as the strings play a steady, slower rhythm (see attached screenshot). My feeling is that the best looking solution would be to temporarily sacrifice rhythmic alignment between the piano part and

Independent rhythmic spacing between staves?

Hi all, In my current project, I have a situation where the piano has fast arpeggios at the same time as the strings play a steady, slower rhythm (see attached screenshot). My feeling is that the best looking solution would be to temporarily sacrifice rhythmic alignment between the piano part and

Re: Spacing between staves

Richard Opheim rvacilon at gmail.com writes: I used to be able to control the space between staves using \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent Spacing of staves was the major change made for version 2.14. The conversion program does not try to auto-convert this particular

Spacing between staves

I used to be able to control the space between staves using \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent but recently, it seems to have lost functionality. For example, in the snippet below, no matter what numerical values I insert into the parentheses, the ossia staff doesn't change its

Re: spacing between staves

- Original Message - From: Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de To: Lilypond-User lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 10:12 AM Subject: spacing between staves Hello all, after reading the manual and the archives, I have to admit that I am probably too stupid for the new

Re: spacing between staves

On 7 February 2011 11:12, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Hello all, after reading the manual and the archives, I have to admit that I am probably too stupid for the new spacing system. I have the following song template and I want the staves to be further apart so they fill about 2/3 of

spacing between staves

Hello all, after reading the manual and the archives, I have to admit that I am probably too stupid for the new spacing system. I have the following song template and I want the staves to be further apart so they fill about 2/3 of the entire page. I fiddled around with ridiculously high values

Re: spacing between staves

Am 07.02.2011 11:52, schrieb Trevor Daniels: Marc Hohl wrote Monday, February 07, 2011 10:12 AM I have the following song template and I want the staves to be further apart so they fill about 2/3 of the entire page. I fiddled around with ridiculously high values for padding, basic-distance

Re: spacing between staves

Marc Hohl wrote Monday, February 07, 2011 10:12 AM I have the following song template and I want the staves to be further apart so they fill about 2/3 of the entire page. I fiddled around with ridiculously high values for padding, basic-distance and minimum-distance, but the staves don't

Re: spacing between staves

Am 07.02.2011 12:42, schrieb Xavier Scheuer: On 7 February 2011 11:12, Marc Hohlm...@hohlart.de wrote: Hello all, after reading the manual and the archives, I have to admit that I am probably too stupid for the new spacing system. I have the following song template and I want the staves to

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

Hi, Bill. On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:30:17 -0700, Bill wrote: And it will require a fairly complex explanation in the docs to make it really clear, particularly to those users such as myself who need a good bit of hand-holding! I wouldn't say that. If not for the unfortunate timing, Oops,

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

Greetings Keith, Thanks for the comment. Do you have a special crystal ball there? Do you know if there is any particular reason why inter-system spacings are done in the \paper block but spacing between staves is dealt with using commands in the \Staff context (Have I got the terminology

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

Hi Bill: Thanks again for the help. I've tried your sample file and still there is no change whatsoever with the score-system-spacing values. I don't know why --- there's not even an error or warning ... everything runs fine, except no change. Now, if you or anyone else can say if there's

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:04:58 -0700, Fr Gilmary wrote: As it is, the suggestion the other day from Patrick Karl works,i.e., to use:\markup { } in between the scores to spread them out more or less ... only it seems like a temporary type fix, no? Father Michael, I would consider Patrick's

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

Keith E OHara wrote: Father Michael, I would consider Patrick's suggestion to be a good permanent method. Thank you, Keith, for your help. I must say all of you on the lilypond list are most helpful, patient and kind --- esp. with someone like me who knows very little about music and

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

Greetings Keith, and others... Keith wrote... Actually, I'm trying to help clean up bugs in the spacing system, so I investigated this: I've tried your sample file and still there is no change whatsoever with the score-system-spacing values. I don't know why --- The

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

Greetings Fr. Michael Gilmary The attached file untitled.ly might be of help. Regards Bill \header { title = Title piece = score-system-spacing affects spacing between 'scores' - but not between Title and 1st score } \paper { %Uncomment either or both of the next two lines and adjust

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

Bill On 27/10/2010 21:29, Bill Mooney wrote: Would it be possible for the v2.13 docs to be expanded so that the full syntax of both intra-system-spacing and extra-system-spacing options is made explicit. Yes this is being done, but is still 'work-in-progress' (document patches have been

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

vertical spacing between staves since what I'm working with is a hymn with verses where the music changes slightly from verse to verse and so I'd like the verses set apart from each other a bit. Any suggestions? Attached is a sample of the music. TIA. -- United in adoration of Jesus, fr

extra spacing between staves and verses

Hi: I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how to get extra vertical space between staves. Here's a sample doc: TimeKey= {\key f \major} FredMusic = \relative c' { a' bes c d } BarneyMusic = \relative c' { f g a bes } VerseOne = \lyricmode { La dee dee dah }

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

On 27 October 2010 20:03, Fr. Michael Gilmary frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org wrote: Hi: I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how to get extra vertical space between staves. My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running an old development version).

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

Xavier Scheuer wrote: On 27 October 2010 20:03, Fr. Michael Gilmary frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org wrote: Hi: I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how to get extra vertical space between staves. My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running

Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

fr. michael gilmary wrote... I'm working with Lilypond v. 2.11.62 and I just can't figure out how to get extra vertical space between staves. Xavier Scheuer replied %%% My advise is to upgrade your version (you are running an old development version). Latest

Re: Vertical spacing between staves with lyrics and ones without

Dear Rodolfi, Am Montag, 18. Januar 2010 17:33:26 schrieb Rodolfo Zitellini: I have a little problem with the spacing between staves with lyrics. When all the voices are singing and every voice has it's text, everything is ok and evenly spaced. But when one or more voices are silent

Re: Vertical spacing between staves with lyrics and ones without

problem with the spacing between staves with lyrics. When all the voices are singing and every voice has it's text, everything is ok and evenly spaced. But when one or more voices are silent the vertical space between the silent voices is reduced, giving a very ugly layout, with the silent staves

Vertical spacing between staves with lyrics and ones without

Dears list, I have a little problem with the spacing between staves with lyrics. When all the voices are singing and every voice has it's text, everything is ok and evenly spaced. But when one or more voices are silent the vertical space between the silent voices is reduced, giving a very ugly

Re: Vertical spacing between staves with lyrics and ones without

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Rodolfi, Am Montag, 18. Januar 2010 17:33:26 schrieb Rodolfo Zitellini: I have a little problem with the spacing between staves with lyrics. When all the voices are singing and every voice has it's text, everything is ok and evenly spaced

Re: Vertical spacing between staves with lyrics and ones without

with the spacing between staves with lyrics. When all the voices are singing and every voice has it's text, everything is ok and evenly spaced. But when one or more voices are silent the vertical space between the silent voices is reduced, giving a very ugly layout, with the silent staves all compressed

decreasing spacing between staves

Greetings, I've looked high and low for the solution to this (rather basic, IMO) problem, and seem to be coming up empty-handed: I have a score that requires a single-line tablature staff above the main staff, which contains pitches. I need to find a way to decrease the space between the

Re: decreasing spacing between staves

You say that you tried adjusting the minimum-Y-extent, but did try doing it both for the Staff and the TabStaff context? The following should get rid of any extra space: \layout{ \context{ \Staff \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(0 . 0) } \context{ \TabStaff

Re: Spacing between staves / page margins

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 05:08, I wrote: I have a piece with one GrandStaff containing two Staffs. Now I'm looking for a way to reduce the distance between the staves, because there's too much unused space, and if I could reduce it, I could easily fit at least one more line on the same page.

Spacing between staves / page margins

Hi all, I have a piece with one GrandStaff containing two Staffs. Now I'm looking for a way to reduce the distance between the staves, because there's too much unused space, and if I could reduce it, I could easily fit at least one more line on the same page. I know I can use interscoreline