Staff Group Spacing of five part score

[Peter Gentry]

I have searched the archive and found an entry which should work but when I try it it doesn’t. I must have misunderstood something along the line and it may be about definitions.

 

I have a  group staff containing five parts. By default I get on one page two “lines” of five staves. There is little space between the groups but a lot of space below the second group. I am seeking to place these two more evenly on the page.

 

My reading of the manuals led me to :-

Properties of the StaffGrouper grob

StaffGrouper properties are typically adjusted with an \override at the StaffGroup level (or

equivalent).

staff-staff-spacing

The distance between consecutive staves within the current staff-group. The

staff-staff-spacing property of an individual staff’s VerticalAxisGroup grob

can be overriden with different spacing settings for that staff.

staffgroup-staff-spacing

The distance between the last staff of the current staff-group and the staff just

below it in the same system, even if one or more non-staff lines (such as Lyrics)

exist between the two staves. Does not apply to the bottom staff of a system. The

staff-staff-spacing property of an individual staff’s VerticalAxisGroup grob

can be overriden with different spacing settings for that staff.

 

But

% First Score block

% -----------------------------------------------------------

\score {

 

\layout { #(layout-set-staff-size 25) }

  \new StaffGroup \with {   \override StaffGrouper.staffgroup-staff-spacing.basic-distance = #10   }

  << 

         \new Staff = AStave

        <<

               \set Staff.instrumentName = "Flt1"

               \new Voice = "F1" {    \include "Line1_M1.ly" }

          >>

 

       \new Staff = BStave

       <<

               \set Staff.instrumentName = "Flt2"

                 \new Voice = "F2" {  \include "Line2_M1.ly" }

       >>

   

       \new Staff = CStave

       <<

               \set Staff.instrumentName = "Clt3A"

                \new Voice = "C3" {    \include "Line3A_M1.ly" \]

        >>

 

       \new Staff = DStave

     <<

                \set Staff.instrumentName = "Clt3B"

                \new Voice = "C4" {    \include "Line3B_M1.ly" }

         >>

     \new Staff = EStave

     <<

                \set Staff.instrumentName = "Clt4"

                \new Voice = "C5" {  \include "Line4_M1.ly" }

         >>

 >>

 

}  %end of score block

 

    \header {  mycustomtext = \markup { \xSurname \xtitle " -" \xinstrument }

                      piece =\markup {\fill-line {    \column {   \center-column {   \fontsize #5 \bold \xmovI } } } }

                                                                                             }

   

     } % end of header

} %end of bookpart block

 

 

However this must be incorrect since any value in   \override StaffGrouper.staffgroup-staff-spacing.basic-distance = #n   has the same result ie no effect.