Re: Spacing problems

[Neil Puttock]

On 4 March 2011 18:25, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
> I reported on .user some problems I had with trying to get Ossia staves
> properly spaced.
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg62140.html) Didn't get
> a response, except from another user on .bugs who reported a problem with
> alignBelowContext.  I've now taken out all of the .13 specific spacing
> statements from my code, and run it through .12.3 and get almost perfect
> output first time.  Also, with .12.3 I get a clean compile, with .13.52 I
> get 878 (count-em) repetitions of:
>
> "warning: staff-affinities should only decrease"

Are you trying to put a Lyrics context inside a Staff context?

For example, you shouldn't do this:

\new Staff <<
  \new Voice { ... }
  \new Lyrics { ... }
>>

> So - to me this is a regression and I'm gonna make a bug report to that
> effect tomorrow unless anyone can explain what's going on and how to fix it.
> Images are attached.

You're probably using the wrong spacing properties.  Any stave aligned
using align(Above|Below)Context is a loose line (like lyrics), so you
need to use the nonstaff-* properties.

> James Lowe reported too late last night that he couldn't space scores apart
> from one another.
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg62149.html).  I tried
> and failed, and concluded that score-system-spacing appears to have no
> effect.  This also appears to be a regression, since we could space scores
> apart on the page in 2.12.  Again, I'll raise this as a separate regression
> tomorrow.

Works fine here:

\paper {
  score-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #30
}

\relative c' {
  c1
}

\relative c' {
  c1
}

Cheers,
Neil