Re: How to adjust space between ChordNames and Staff?

[Risto Vääräniemi]

On 14 January 2017 at 21:12, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> Thomas Morley wrote Friday, January 13, 2017 9:05 PM
>
>
> > 2017-01-13 17:05 GMT+01:00 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:
> >>
> >> Risto Vääräniemi wrote Friday, January 13, 2017 3:15 PM
> >>
> >>> On 13 January 2017 at 01:20, Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Interesting.  Does that mean the ChordNames and Lyrics contexts behave
> >>>> differently wrt the vertical spacing controls when these are placed
> within a
> >>>> \with { } block, since Lyrics can be spaced out that way?
> >>>>
> >>>> If so, is this intended for some reason ... or a bug?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks Harm. That did the trick. However, I concur with Trevor about
> the
> >>> confusing difference compared to Lyrics. I assumed that they'd work the
> >>> same way so I did not occur to me to try the \layout block. If it /is/
> an
> >>> intended behaviour, there should probably be a note that the settings
> >>> won't work with \with { }.
> >>
> >> Exactly, but I think we need to understand exactly what the problem is
> before
> >> we can decide (a) whether this _is_ a bug and if so (b) whether it is a
> coding or
> >> a documentation problem.
> >>
> >> Copying to bug list so this doesn't get forgotten.
> >
> > No bug.
> > It's \chords vs \chordmode.
> >
> > \chords (as a shortcut) already created a ChordNames-context, see:
> >
> > chordStuff = \chords { c1 d:m }
> > \void \displayLilyMusic \chordStuff
> >
> > So if you really want to use \chords you need to put overrides, etc
> > into \layout or use
> > \chords \with { ... }
> > at least with newer devel-versions.
> >
> > If you use \chordmode you can do
> > \new ChordNames \with { ... } \chordmode
>
> Excellent explanation!  Many thanks!
>
> So no bug, but we should add a paragraph somewhere in the NR to make this
> clear.  I'll start on that in a day or two.
>
> Trevor
>
>
Thanks for the explanation. And thanks to Trevor for the NR part.

I had to move from \chords to \chordmode anyway because concatenating two
set of chords did not work ( e.g. \new ChordNames { \chordsPartI
\chordsPartII } ). The second part was thrown under the whole system.
However, at that point I had already moved the padding in the \layout block.

The \chords mechanism might also explain why combining did not work—a
second ChordNames was created and ...

-Risto