Re: Changing basic distance between stanzas

[David Nalesnik]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Joshua Nichols
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks, I did look into this, and instead of a warning, I get no change.
>
> See below for what I used.
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> notesA = {
>   c'
> }
>
> vOne = \lyricmode {
>   a
> }
>
> vTwo = \lyricmode {
>   b
> }
>
> \score {
>   <<
>     \new Voice = "mel" { \notesA }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { \vOne }
>     \new Lyrics \lyricsto "mel" { \vTwo }
>
>
>   >>
>   \layout {
>       \context {
>         \Lyrics
>           \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-5 . 40)
>       }
>   }
> }
>
>
> IX,
>

For your layout block, try (as one possibility):

 \layout {
      \context {
        \Lyrics
          \override VerticalAxisGroup #'nonstaff-nonstaff-spacing =
#'((basic-distance . 5))
      }
  }

The relevant section in the Notation Reference is
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-within-systems#spacing-of-non_002dstaff-lines

Hope this helps!

David