Re: Mixed Staff Spacing

[Mats Bengtsson]

Gilles wrote:
> > > But I'm still wondering why LilyPond couldn't use the fact that the staff
> > > actually occupies less space, and reduce accordingly the inter-staff
> > > space...
> >
> > It can, but this usually leads to uneven vertical spacing, which
> > doesn't look nice.
>
>
> Yes, it wouldn't look nice.
> The _same_ amount should be substracted from all inter-staff space, to
> keep them even. [This amount to be determined as the maximum permissible
> over the whole score.  That would need some sort of two-pass, which might
> be the problem...]

There's no problem at all, just use the property extraVerticalExtent
with a positive number for the lower extent and negative number for the
upper extent to reduce the vertical spacing that LilyPond allocates to
each stave.

   /Mats