Re: Distance between staffs

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-07-22 7:12 am, Silvain Dupertuis wrote:
> Hello,
> I found a nice way to do it, using Lilypond 20, by specifying
> staff-staff-spacing.padding with a negative value
>
>     \new PianoStaff \with {
>       % midiInstrument = "tenor sax"
>       \override StaffGrouper.staff-staff-spacing = #'(
>                             (basic-distance . 0)
>                             (padding . 0)) % s0 for first exemple ;
> second example : (padding . -3.09)
>     }
>
> The result was this
>
>  with padding=0
>  with the negative adjustment (padding = -3.06)
>
> Unfortunately, this adjustment no longer works in LilyPond 22
> It looks like the property was broken, or no longer function this way?
> Whatever the value, the distance is not affected.

Negative padding still works, but you failed to set minimum-distance.  
Seems there was a change of behavior around the assumed defaults.

That said, you should be relying solely on 
basic-distance/minimum-distance to separate the staves properly.  You 
then just need a suitably large negative padding to handle the 
overlapping ink.  Negative infinity should be large enough for most 
situations:

%%%%
\version "2.22.0"

\new PianoStaff
\with {
  \override StaffGrouper.staff-staff-spacing =
  #'((basic-distance . 6) (minimum-distance . 6)
     (padding . -inf.0) (stretchability . 0))
}
<< \new Staff { g,4 g g' g'' | s1 }
   \new Staff { \clef "bass" s1 | g,4 g g' g'' } >>
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill

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