Re: staff-space doesn't seem to work as documented

[Graham Percival]

There's a difference between
  #'1.5
and
  #1.5}

This is a user error, not a documentation problem.

- Graham


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the PDF documentation for 2.12.3 and the online documentation for 2.13.16
> it gives the syntax for reducing staff spacing as:
>
> \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #1.5
>
> If I use this syntax, I get an error:
>
> error: syntax error, unexpected '{'
> \new Staff \with {\override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'1.5}
>                                                              { c'' c'' c''
> c'' }
>
>
> If I use a syntax with parentheses (guessed by trial and error):
>
> \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'( . 1.5)
>
> I compiles and runs successfully.
>
> Code snippets are available if required.
>
> Is this a bug in the documentation?
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
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