Re: More vertical space between staves

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 11/20/08 10:52 AM, "seppo silaste" <address@hidden> wrote:

> With the generous help of Carl D. Sorensen, Risto Vääräniemi and Kieran
> MacMillan I've created the following empty sheet with empty fret diagrams:
> 
> \version "2.11.64"
> 
> \header {
>    tagline = ""
> }
> 
> \storePredefinedDiagram \chordmode{c''}
>                         #guitar-tuning
>                         #"o;o;o;o;o;o;"
> 
> \paper {
>   #(set-paper-size "a4")
> }
> 
> \score {
> <<
>   \new FretBoards {
>     \override FretBoard #'fret-diagram-details #'open-string = #" "
>     \override FretBoard #'fret-diagram-details #'fret-count = #6
>      \chordmode {
>        \repeat unfold 12 { c''2 c''2 }
>      }
>   }
>   \context Staff {
>     \repeat unfold 3 {s1 s1 s1 s1 \break}
>     \bar "|."
>   }
>>> 
> }
> 
> Only problem is that there is too little vertical space between the
> staves/lines. How do I increase that (and add more space at the top)? As
> a purely academical question I was wondering why lilypond will give an
> error warning even though the document is fine? This is the lilypond output:

To get more space, add the following line to your \paper{} block.

between-system-space = 6\cm

(This is described in the Notation Reference section 4.4.2 Vertical spacing
between systems)

I'd also recommend adding

indent = 0

to your \paper{} block; I think it's much more appealing for this type of
layout.

To get more space at the top, you could add some title block elements as
" ", which won't show but will take up space.  For example, you could add
(in your \header{} block):

     title = " "
     subtitle = " "
     composer = " "
     arranger = " "


HTH,

Carl

P.S.  Have you tried looking in the manual for these things?  If you use the
2.11 documentation, all of these are very easy to find in the Notation
Reference.