Re: Vertical spacing in 2.13

[Joe Neeman]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 12:51 +1100, Nick Payne wrote:
> On 15/12/09 10:56, Joe Neeman wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 08:01 +1100, Nick Payne wrote:
> >    
> >> How is vertical spacing between staves controlled now in 2.13.x? In
> >> s.4.4.1 and s.4.4.2 the NR for 2.13.9 still talks about using \override
> >> Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent and between-system-padding in
> >> the \paper section, but neither of these now appear to do anything.
> >>      
> > Thanks for the reminder; I still need to rewrite these sections.
> > Vertical spacing has changed significantly since 2.13.3ish and there are
> > a lot of new knobs to tweak. The new variables are documented in the
> > internals reference and in section 4.1.2 of the notation reference.
> >
> > You can also find more information about the changes in the list
> > archives. For example, search for the subject "Dead lyrics context still
> > occupies vertical space" in the lily-devel archives.
> >    
> If i try the following:
> 
> \version "2.13.9"
> 
> notes = \relative c' {
>      \repeat unfold 100 { c4 }
> }
> 
> \score {
>      \notes
>      \layout {
>          \context {
>              \Staff
>                  \override VerticalAxisGroup #'next-staff-spacing = 
> #'((space . 20) (padding . 15) (stretchability . 12) (minimum-distance . 
> 12))
>          }
>      }
> }
> 
> regardless of the values I put in the alist, the spacing between staves 
> doesn't change. What am I doing wrong here?

VerticalAxisGroup #'next-staff-spacing controls the spacing between two
staves in the same system. For spacing between systems, use the
between-system-spacing variable in the \paper block.

Joe