Re: Chord Names set at different heights?

[Walter Hofmeister]

On 3/19/04 1:15 AM, "Edward Sanford Sutton, III" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thursday March 18 2004 20:57, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
>> On 3/18/04 11:23 AM, "Bertalan Fodor" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I think the question is to achieve something like this:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>           G
>>> C     F  -o- -o-  C
>>> ------------------------
>>> ----o-o--------------o--
>>> ------------------o-----
>>> o-o---------------------
>>> ------------------------
>>> 
>>> If you have a high note (or some lyrics for only some notes above the
>>> staff) the whole line of chords is shifted up to be in one line, like
>>> this:
>>> 
>>> C     F   G       C
>>>         hel-lo
>>>        -o- -o-
>>> ------------------------
>>> ----o-o--------------o--
>>> ------------------o-----
>>> o-o---------------------
>>> ------------------------
>> 
>> Actually, I want them all in a line like example 2. If the notes are above
>> the staff, more clearance is required so that the chord names do not
>> collide with the notes. To accomplish this it is necessary to increase the
>> height of the chord names. But if on another line the notes are not so high
>> on the staff, the higher chord names will look odd because now there is a
>> lot of clearance between the staff and the chord names.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> C       F  G       C
>>           -o- -o-
>> ---------------------------
>> ------o-o------------------
>> ------------------o-o------
>> --o-o----------------------
>> ---------------------------
>> 
>> This is OK.
>> 
>> C       F  G       C
>> 
>> 
>> ---------------------------
>> ---------o-----------------
>> -----o-----o--------o------
>> ---o---o------o---o--------
>> -o--------------o----------
>> 
>> This looks odd.
>> 
>> My question is: is there a way so that the first example can get the extra
>> clearance needed but also can the chord names in the second example be set
>> lower or closer to the staff? I am assuming that both these settings are in
>> the same .ly file.
>> 
> 
> Staff.minimumVerticalExtent (as Mats Bengtsson stated) should be the
> adjustment that you care to play with. LilyPond by default does the following
> like you want; Staff.minimumVerticalExtent lets you control how much space it
> makes for the chords to begin with.
> 
> 
Hi Edward,
    I have played with Staff.minimumVerticalExtent and it seems to change
the height of the chord names for the whole file. Even when I have several
places in the source file where I set \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent =
#'(-6 . 6) or other settings, the largest amount of space is always the one
that gets used. If you or anyone else are aware of a way to set this to
different amounts for different systems I would be interested in knowing
how.

Walter