On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 09:25, Randy Josleyn <
randy.josleyn@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone!
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> I'm trying to increase the spacing between the bottom line of lyrics and the ChordNames in the next system.
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> My score looks like the MWE below. I played with example below and even without the ChordNames, the override doesn't behave as I expected it would. I checked the IR and it says nonstaff-unrelatedstaff-spacing.padding is set, so I assumed changing it would change the distance.
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> I also tried setting the same setting on ChordNames, but it similarly had no effect on the spacing.
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> (snip)
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> Can anyone make any suggestions to help me increase the space from the bottom of the lyrics of one system and the top of the next system?
Hello,
Well, if it is spacing between two systems, then you should not look into Flexible vertical spacing *within systems*.
Use system-system-spacing as described in NR 4.1.4 Flexible vertical spacing \paper variables.
\paper {
system-system-spacing.padding = #5
}
Cheers,
Xavier