Re: Staff: vertical spacing, reduce chord name distance

[Daniel Johnson]

Thomas Scharkowski wrote:
> IIRC in previous versions I could reduce the distance between a staff 
> and chord symbols by this command:
>
> \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-4 . 1)
>
> In 2.8.1 this is:
> \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-4 . 1)
>
> or did I get something wrong?
> Reducing the space this way dos not work here, increasing does work.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thank you
> Thomas
> Windows XP
>   
You can see what the required code is here; you can also see a bug 
related to it:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-lilypond%40gnu.org/msg07067.html

In short, you need to set minimum-Y-extent to false, and then set 
Y-extent to an absolute value instead.  But you may encounter 
stem-length errors on beamed notes.  As far as I can tell, this problem 
has not yet been addressed, even in CVS.  The bug was introduced when 
the VerticalAxisGroup interface was added to the Staff context about 
midway through the 2.7 development cycle.

--Daniel