Re: system and staff spacing

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/8/30 Gilberto Agostinho <address@hidden>:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been trying to modify the distance between systems and staves, but I
> found it somehow difficult to understand. I am using the following code (on
> which I added the a \paper snippet):
>
> \version "2.17.24"
>
> \paper {
>   system-system-spacing #'basic-distance = #8
>   score-system-spacing =
>     #'((basic-distance . 12)
>     (minimum-distance . 6)
>     (padding . 1)
>     (stretchability . 12))
> }
> \new Staff {
>   \repeat unfold 200 { a4 b c' d' }
> }
>
> I was playing with the values of the snippet above, and the only line that
> affects something is the system-system-spacing. All parameters of
> score-system-spacing seem to do nothing here, even though it is defined in
> the reference as "the distance between the last system of a score and the
> first system of the score that follows it, when no (title or top-level)
> markup exists between them."

Huh?  You have just _one_ score here, containing 200 measures of { a4
b c' d' }, so small wonder that score-system-spacing doesn't do
anything.  To change the spacing between lines (systems), you use
system-system-spacing, exactly as you said.

Is this clearer now?
Janek