Sorry about posting off list. I hit reply assuming it would go to lilypond-user.
You are correct - the \cm specification is not necessary. I start seeing results - notable separation between score1 and score2 with score-system-spacing.basic-distance set around 12 or so. I get my desired spacing with a value of 15.
Do you know what the relationship is between system-system-spacing and score-systems-spacing. Does one have precedence over the other? In
paper-defaults-init.ly system-system-spacing.basic-distance is set to 12 while score-system-spacing.basic-distance is set to 14. It's interesting that I don't see an effect until I reach or exceed system-system-spacing.basic-distance.
Thanks again for the help.
-steve
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 4:41 PM Simon Albrecht <
address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Stephen,
first of all: please keep conversation on-list, except if privacy is
actually necessary.
On 22.07.2017 23:49, Stephen Nesbitt wrote:
> I actually did see the score-system-spacing in the
> flexible-vertical-spacing-paper at
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-paper-variables,
> but was unable to get it to work - or more accurately - get it to do
> anything.
>
> I tried again adding score-system-spacing.basic-distance = 10\cm to
> the \paper block and now its working. I suspect that I don't really
> understand what a staff-space is and the values I used didn't result
> in any change. Changing to centimeters did something.
Did ‘something’? Did it actually insert 10 cm of space?
Maybe try again without the \cm, but with a (ridiculously) large number
like 50 to see if it actually does anything. Staff-spaces, the distance
between two normal staff-lines, are the basic measuring unit in
LilyPond. This allows scaling everything along with the music.
> Also note that I think there is a typo in the example given with the
> update one key-value example shown as
> *system-system-spacing.basic-distance = #8*. Shouldn't it be
> *score-system-spacing.basic-distance = #8?*
system-system-spacing is a thing as well, and all those flexible
vertical spacing properties work basically the same, only with different
values.
HTH, Simon