Hello Aaron, That did the trick, setting the minimum-distance. I haven't been using these settings, but clearly they interact. Will play around some more.
Many thanks, mattfong On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 3:09 PM Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote: > On 2020-11-27 2:56 pm, Matthew Fong wrote: > > Hello Aaron, > > > > Ah, I didn't dig deeply enough! > > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-within-systems#within_002dsystem-spacing-properties > > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-within-systems#spacing-of-non_002dstaff-lines > > > > Your example and the documentation are in perfect accord. And I played > > around with it. However, when I plug it into my LilyPond file, it > > *compresses* considerably (!) Please see attached picture. I put all my > > Lyrics settings into your example and it still works as expected. > > That would be my mistake. I forgot to also set minimum-distance so that > it does not compress. My example works only because there is no > pressure to reduce spacing. > > Use the same value for basic-distance and minimum-distance, and it > should work. > > > -- Aaron Hill >
