Re: in-stave / between notes spacing?

[Malte Meyn]

Am 15.08.2017 um 00:15 schrieb Vlad Kudelin:
> Hello,
> thank you again everybody for the fantastic tool! I enjoy it more and more, 
> most things become easier every day, except for those few that become harder ) 
> Hope asking questions once in a while is all right.
> ...I've found a lot about vertical spacing between staves / systems... but 
> seems there is no clear way (to me at least) on how to increase vertical 
> distance between lines / notes in a staff/chord, so some of my writing looks 
> pretty hard to read (see the example, Ver. 1).
> See how the tie on aes in the Ver. 1 is almost invisible. (_
> I tried using voicing (Ver. 2 & 3). In Ver. 2 it gets worse:  there is visually an 
> error –– the quarter notes <aes f>4 look like 8ths (__
> And with "\StemUp/down" it gets really messy to write.
> Can this be improved visually?  I think making the staff a bit taller could 
> just do the trick....

For polyphony (Version 2 & 3) you wouldn’t use \stemUp and \stemDown but 
\voiceOne and \voiceTwo (and, if you have more voices, also \voiceThree 
etc.).

But for

<< { \voiceOne A } { \voiceTwo B } >>

there is the shortcut

<< { A } \\ { B } >>

so you don’t need these commands in this situation.

To improve your Version 1 you can manually change the direction of the ties.

The following code shows three possible solutions to your problem:
• Version 4 is like Version 1 but changes the tie direction.
• Version 5 uses << \\ >> for polyphony as described above.
• Version 6 is how I would notate it: use polyphony only where necessary 
(i. e. only the second beat).

I couldn’t resist to clean up your code a bit before trying to find 
better solutions ;) I find it very confusing to use \relative outside of 
\new Staff although it seems to work. And it’s not necessary to write 
“<c e,>” instead of “< c e, >” but I find the latter confusing, same as 
headers, \score blocks and context names that aren’t necessary to 
understand the problem. So I hope these changes don’t distract you from 
the original problem.

\version "2.18.2"

% Version 4
\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Staff \relative {
    \clef treble
    <d' c a g f> <d c aes_~ f~>8 <e b aes f> <c e,>2\fermata |
    \bar "|."
  }
  \new Staff \relative {
    \clef bass
    f,4 g4 r8 <g c,>4. |
    \bar "|."
  }
>>

% Version 5
\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Staff \relative {
    \clef treble
    <<
      {
        <d' c>4 <d c>8 <e b>8
      } \\ {
        <a, g f>4 <aes f>4
      }
    >>
    <c e,>2\fermata |
    \bar "|."
  }
  \new Staff \relative {
    \clef bass
    f,4 g4 r8 <g c,>4. |
    \bar "|."
  }
>>

% Version 6
\new PianoStaff <<
  \new Staff \relative {
    \clef treble
    <d' c a g f>4
    <<
      {
        <d c>8 <e b>8
      } \\ {
        <aes, f>4
      }
    >>
    <c e,>2\fermata |
    \bar "|."
  }
  \new Staff \relative {
    \clef bass
    f,4 g4 r8 <g c,>4. |
    \bar "|."
  }
>>