Re: Increasing spacing between staves

[Ben]

On 11/10/2017 12:49 PM, David Sumbler wrote:

Is there some way of increasing or specifying the space between the 2
staves of a piano staff at a particular point in a score?

The piece I am setting has a lot of cross-staff beams, and sometimes
Lilypond does not allow enough space between the staves for a decent-
looking beam.  In those cases I would like to force a greater space
between the 2 staves just for that particular printed line of music.

I do not wish to alter the minimum staff spacing globally.  But the
particular points where extra spacing is needed may not occur at the
beginning of a line, and of course the spacing of the whole line must
be changed.

Can this be done?

David

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Hi David,

(not sure what version you are on but this will change the space for the piano)

Yes. Simply use this code to taste:

\new PianoStaff \with {
    \override StaffGrouper.staff-staff-spacing = #'(
                            (basic-distance . 0)
                            (padding . 0))
  }

via http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/learning/vertical-spacing