Re: extra spacing between staves and verses

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Keith E OHara wrote:


> Father Michael,
>  I would consider Patrick's suggestion to be a good permanent method.



Thank you, Keith, for your help. I must say all of you on the lilypond 
list are most helpful, patient and kind --- esp. with someone like me 
who knows very little about music and computer stuff.

I'm most happy to use the \markup { " " } as suggested by Patrick.


>   If want more space at a few particular places, putting a " " space 
> there seems clear in its purpose, so you will remember what it is for 
> if you revise this year from now.  You can adjust the gap by lowering 
> the space with \markup\lower #7 " " .   (When version 2.14 comes out, 
> we can simplify this to \markup\vspace#6 to get exactly six 
> staff-spaces.)
>
>
>   Just to make sure that you know, the 2.13.x versions are the 
> experimental versions to be used for testing new features that will go 
> into the next usable version 2.14.  (By convention the versions odd 
> numbers after the decimal are trials for the even numbers.)  That 
> means there will be bugs, but 2.13.37 appears very close to stable so 
> it should be reasonably usable.
>
> Actually, I'm trying to help clean up bugs in the spacing system, so I 
> investigated this:
>
> > I've tried your sample file and still there is no
> > change whatsoever with the score-system-spacing values. I don't know 
> > why ---
>
> The score-system-spacing settings handle the case when there is no 
> markup text between scores. (If there is markup text, the LilyPond 
> uses  markup-system-spacing  instead.)
>
> Bill's helpful comment (with my minor correction)
> piece="score-system-spacing affects spacing between 'scores' - but not 
> between [markup like title, piece, etc.] and the score"
> was itself markup text, so adding it caused LilyPond to refer to 
> markup-system-spacing instead.


Ahhhh ... mystery solved!


> We have to appreciate the irony in that.

I'll send you something off-list that might interest you in irony and 
other figures of speech.

Many thanks to all. I hope you will accept the benefit of our prayers 
for all of you --- that's my job!

All this friendly help from the world of "free" software reminds me 
frequently of a saying of Jesus:
"Freely have you received, freely give" (Mt. 10:8).



--
United in adoration of Jesus, 



fr. michael gilmary, mma

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