Re: How to increase space between chord names and the fret diagram?

[Stephen Torri]

Thank you very much for giving me an example. Now I understand
completely what you had in mind.

Stephen

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 08:58 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> That's not exactly what I had in mind. Since the default value of
> minimum-Y-extent in Lyrics is (-1.2 . 2.4) (see the program reference 
> for the
> Lyrics context to find out, 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/Lyrics.html#Lyrics),
> and since the fretboards are much higher than normal lyrics, I would rather
> use something like
> 
> \score{
>   ...
>   \layout{
>     ragged-right = ##t
>     \context{
>       \Lyrics
>       \override LyricSpace #'minimum-distance = #2.0
>       \override VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-1.2 . 9.0)
>    }
>   }
> }
> 
>    /Mats
> 
> Stephen Torri wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:09 +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> >   
> >> This is described in the section "Vertical spacing inside a system"
> >> in the manual. You could either increase the vertical extent of the 
> >> ChordNames context downwards or of the Lyrics context upwards.
> >>
> >>    /Mats
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > So do this:
> >
> >  \override Lyrics.VerticalAxisGroup #'y-extent = #'( 0 . 3 )
> >
> > Is that what you mean by "increase the vertical extent" of Lyrics?
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >   
>