RE: Volta brackets on different heights

[Sven Axelsson]

That seems to do the trick. Thanks.

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P/S Sven Axelsson, The Murray Pipes & Drums of Gothenburg
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: den 3 januari 2005 12:59
> To: Sven Axelsson
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Volta brackets on different heights
> 
> To quote an old answer I sent to the mailing list:
> 
> The trick is to increase the minimum-space property, which
> determines the default minimum spacing between the bracket
> and the stave. The default value is 5, so try something like
> \override Score.VoltaBracket #'minimum-space = #7
> 
>    /Mats
> 
> Sven Axelsson wrote:
> > Hello List.
> > 
> > This question is for Lilypond 2.4.2.
> > 
> > I've recently started to use Lilypond for typesetting music 
> for the Highland
> > Bagpipe, having used MusicTeX for many years before. The 
> bagpipe specific
> > stuff is working fine - I started out with Andrew McNabb's 
> definitions and
> > changed a lot of stuff to better suit my previous work.
> > 
> > One thing I'm encountering all the time now is that the 
> volta brackets for
> > adjacent alternatives are put on different height. I would 
> like to *always*
> > put the brackets at the same height by some magic in the 
> \layout section I am
> > including in my bagpipe.ly file. I have tried this:
> > 
> > \layout {
> >   \context {
> >     \Score
> >     \override VoltaBracket #'padding = #3.0
> >   }
> > }
> > 
> > with different numbers for the padding, but it has zero effect.
> > 
> 
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