Changing vertical staff spacing for PianoStaff?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to temporarily extend the vertical alignment of
> piano staffs?  I've the problem that I need more space for some parts
> only. Enlarging the distance for the whole piece would just look ugly.
> 
> Would it even be possible to let LilyPond automatically enlarge
> the distance to avoid collisions between both staffs, i.e. use that
> `forced-distance' as default but use a larger value when detecting
> vertical collisions?

You can use GrandStaff for this purpose. However, in that case, you
cannot use cross-staff beams or slurs.


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