Re: status of new vertical spacing in 2.13.44

[Paul Scott]

On 12/28/2010 12:51 PM, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> On 28 December 2010 19:49, Paul Scott<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Should the following code work?  Am I misunderstanding staff-staff-spacing.
> >   Changing the numbers doesn't seem to change the spacing.  (I haven't tried
> > it in any other version).
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Paul Scott
> >
> > \version "2.13.44"
> >
> > \header{ poet = \markup{ staff-staff-spacing test } }
> >
> > \score{
> > <<
> >     \new Staff \with {
> >       \override VerticalAxisGroup #'staff-staff-spacing =
> >        #'((basic-distance . 8)
> >          (minimum-distance . 7)
> >          (padding . 8))
> >     }
> > <<  { \repeat unfold 200 a'1 }>>
> >     \addlyrics { \lyricmode{ what } }
> >     \addlyrics { \lyricmode{ why } }
> >      
> > > >          
> Hi,
>
> \addlyrics  is equivalent to  \new Lyrics .
> Spacing between staff and lyrics is not controlled by
> 'staff-staff-spacing  but by  'nonstaff-relatedstaff-spacing .
>
> See "Spacing of non-staff lines" within the doc:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/flexible-vertical-spacing-within-systems.html#spacing-of-non_002dstaff-lines
>    

Thanks for the clarification.

I actually want to increase the spacing between the second lyric and the 
next staff.  I didn't see where 4.4.1 covered that or where what I want 
is documented.

Thanks,

Paul