Re: staff-space doesn't seem to work as documented

[Phil Holmes]

The user error was actually in the quoting in my email: I'd tried both #'1.5 
and #1.5 and neither had worked.  Thanks to those who pointed out the 
requirement for white space between the font size specification and the 
curly brace: #'1.5 } and #1.5 } both work.   #1.5} doesn't work, and I'd not 
picked this up from the documentation since I tend to put commands of this 
sort on a single line, which the documentation doesn't.

--
Phil Holmes


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "LilyPond User Group" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: staff-space doesn't seem to work as documented


There's a difference between
 #'1.5
and
 #1.5}

This is a user error, not a documentation problem.

- Graham


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the PDF documentation for 2.12.3 and the online documentation for 
> 2.13.16
> it gives the syntax for reducing staff spacing as:
>
> \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #1.5
>
> If I use this syntax, I get an error:
>
> error: syntax error, unexpected '{'
> \new Staff \with {\override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'1.5}
> { c'' c'' c''
> c'' }
>
>
> If I use a syntax with parentheses (guessed by trial and error):
>
> \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'( . 1.5)
>
> I compiles and runs successfully.
>
> Code snippets are available if required.
>
> Is this a bug in the documentation?
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
>
>
>
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