Hello Aaron, With respect to the scale factor of 5 that you are using. Is that depending on staff size?
I'm using #(layout-set-staff-size 18) at the moment. Many thanks, mattfong On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 4:11 PM Matthew Fong <oxen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
