Re: Need real cross-staff chords

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/6/12 9:18 PM, "Pavel Roskin" <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>The problem is that both approaches depend on the ability to fix the
>distance between staves, which existed in Lilypond 2.4 both doesn't
>seem to exist now.  The original file used:
>
>\context {
>   \PianoStaff
>   \accepts Dynamics
>   \override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance = #7
>}
>
>There is no "forced-distance" now.  I can use "minimal-distance", but
>there is no guarantee that Lilypond won't increase the distance between
>staves.  And Lilypond may do it because of something in another measure.

You can get a fixed distance by setting minimal-distance = basic-distance,
and stretchability = 0.

HTH,


Carl