On 2010-03-26, Phil Holmes wrote: > In the PDF documentation for 2.12.3 and the online documentation for > 2.13.16 it gives the syntax for reducing staff spacing as: > > \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #1.5 > > If I use this syntax, I get an error: > > error: syntax error, unexpected '{' > \new Staff \with {\override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'1.5} > { c'' > c'' c'' c'' }
I think there needs to be a space after the value 1.5, which should hopefully fix your problem: \new Staff \with {\override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'1.5 } Also, if you format your code on multiple lines, that will work too (like it appears in the documentation), since line breaks are considered to be spaces: \new Staff \with { \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'1.5 } If you want to save yourself an extra keystroke, the 1.5 does not need to be quoted: \new Staff \with { \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #1.5 } > If I use a syntax with parentheses (guessed by trial and error): > > \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'( . 1.5) I wouldn't recommend this syntax, since ( . 1.5) is not a valid cons cell in Scheme. But that's an interesting observation! -Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user