Re: ...and thy Staff, they comfort me

[Mats Bengtsson]

It seems that the forced-distance specifies the distance between
each of the contexts within the PianoStaff. In your example, there
are three of them, the upper and lower staves and the dynamics line.
However, as soon as a context doesn't contain anything more that
has a duration, it will be deleted. This is what happens to the
dynamics somewhere before the second score line. So, the simple
solution is to keep the dynamics line "alive" for the whole piece,
something like

pianoDyn = \notes { s2.\p s2.*9 s1 s2. ...  }

  /Mats

Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote:
> Hello, Mats:
>
> Everything is perfect now EXCEPT...  =)
>
> The PianoStaff only maintains its "forced-distance" on the first line -- 
> after that, the upper and lower staves are cramped. [See example, 
> attached.]
>
> Any reason why?
>
> Thanks,
> Kieren.

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