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Re: adding extra spacing ABOVE a context
From: |
Kieren MacMillan |
Subject: |
Re: adding extra spacing ABOVE a context |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:38:21 -0500 |
Hi Alex,
> Could you give an example?
I don’t have time right now — under a serious “get it out the door” engraving
crunch.
However, I’m running into the issue right now, and it’s killing my
productivity. I’ve got the following structure for my score:
<<
\new TextLine << \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_global
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_script_short >>
\new ScoreMarks \with { \consists #Measure_counter_engraver }
\keepWithTag #'(marks-only)
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_global
\new VocalGroup \with { \remove "System_start_delimiter_engraver" } <<
\new VocalStaff << \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_global
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_Jill_notes >>
\addlyrics \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_Jill_lyrics
\new ChoirStaff <<
\new LyricsAbove = "Lyrics_chorusD"
\new ChoralStaff << \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_global
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_chorusCNotes >>
\addlyrics \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_chorusCLyrics
\new ChoralStaff << \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_global
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_chorusANotes >>
\addlyrics \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_chorusALyrics
\new LyricsAbove = "Lyrics_chorusE"
\new ChoralStaff << \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_global
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_chorusBNotes >>
\addlyrics \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_chorusBLyrics
\context LyricsAbove = "Lyrics_chorusD" \lyricsto "Voice_chorusD"
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_chorusDLyrics
\context LyricsAbove = "Lyrics_chorusE" \lyricsto "Voice_chorusE"
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_chorusELyrics
>>
>>
\new PianoStaff <<
\new PianoSingleStaffUpper = "Staff_piano_upper" <<
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_global \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_piano_notes_upper >>
\new PianoDynamics = "Dynamics_piano"
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_piano_dynamics
\new PianoChords = "Chords_piano" \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_chords
\new PianoSingleStaffLower = "Staff_piano_lower" <<
\FTE_FairyTaleEnding_global \FTE_FairyTaleEnding_piano_notes_lower >>
>>
>>
(Some of these are obviously custom contexts.)
I want to maintain a minimum amount of space between the VocalGroup (including
any Lyrics contexts which are alive at the bottom) and the PianoStaff. However,
staffgroup-staff-spacing behaves differently depending on whether there are
lyrics below the last contained Staff (cf.
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/internals/staffgrouper>: "The
spacing alist controlling the distance between the last staff of the current
staff-group and the staff just below it in the same system, even if one or more
non-staff lines exist between the two staves.”)
What I want is to set
PianoStaff.VerticalAxisGroup.StaffGrouper.spacing-above.padding = #4 [or
whatever], so that there is always at least a certain amount of space above the
PianoStaff, regardless of whether the context above is a staff or a nonstaff.
The same thing would apply to my TextLine (i.e., my original post/request): I
want it to add EXTRA space/padding “above itself”, so that a system with a
TextLine at the top is farther away from the system above it than a system
without a TextLine would be.
Unfortunately [AFAIK], all of the spacing parameters modify the “below” space…
Even then, not all of them work intuitively — again, it would be far better
[IMO] if the entire StaffGrouper (including all staff and non-staff lines)
“counted” for spacing purposes.
Make sense?
Thanks,
Kieren.