Re: System spacing for Certain

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-01-16 4:44 pm, Aaron Hill wrote:
> Wow... no wonder you're having trouble.  I just tried to work through
> the relevant section of the documentation [1] and found that it
> largely does not work as stated.  Well, to be more specific, I could
> get some partial results using 2.18.2 via lilybin.com, however my
> local copy of 2.19.82 fails to render the examples as documented.
> There are definitely some bugs here that need to be addressed, but let
> us move that discussion to another thread.

A bit of jumping the gun here on my part.  There are some bugs, but not 
what I originally thought, so this generally falls on user error on my 
part.

I typically render cropped (-dcrop) PNG output.  It would seem that some 
features of LilyPond do not work in this mode.  Explicit positioning 
seems to require uncropped PDF output to show up.

But the original advice still stands: explicit staff positioning is done 
via alignment-distances.  X-offset, Y-offset, and extra-offset apply 
only to the system as a whole.

-- Aaron Hill