Re: Lead sheet: How to change spacing between staff and chords?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Robert Kennedy wrote:
> > The general principles are described in the section on "Vertical spacing 
> > inside a system" in the manual.
> >     
>
> In the 2.10.14 manual the section is called simply "Vertical Spacing,"
> but thank you; this is exactly the pointer I needed. Your suggestions
> solved my problem.
>
>   
I referred to the subsection within that main section.
> But your suggestions seem to apply to the entire score. How can I
> change the spacing between chords and staff for just one printed line?
>
>   
If you keep reading, you will end up at the subsection "Controlling 
spacing of
individual systems", which provides an answer. I've never used these tricks
myself, though, so I can't promise. Note also that these settings have
changed in the latest development version 2.11, so when you upgrade to the
future version 2.12 you will have to modify your solution.

A hackers solution is to try to make the text script take more space, 
for example
using
d^\markup{\column {\hspace #1.0 "some text" }}

or

d^\markup{\pad-to-box #'(0 . 0) #'(0 . 8) "some text" }

where you can modify the number 8 to get whatever spacing you need.

  /Mats