ChoirStaff spacing

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> > > Any idea (ohter than spacer lyrics) how I could increase the spacing
> > > between the two ChoirStaffs here?
> > > (Well, in the actual score there will be lyrics in the middle of
> > > each ChoirStaff, but that shouldn't matter here, should it?)
> > 
> > Why not extrapolate from the previous anwer. There are properties
> > like ChoirStaffExtraVerticalExtent and ChoirStaffMinimumVerticalExtent
> > for every kind of context.
> > Unfortunately this hasn't made it into the manual yet.
> > 
> Adding the following to the paper block doesn't have any effect nor does
> explicitely setting the corresponding properties:
> (values are probably nonsensical but large enough that they should have a
> visible effect)
> 

choirstaff doesn't have a Vertical_align_engraver, but relies on the
one in Score context. One idea is to add an align engraver to
ChoirStaff and do \push on #'Y-extra-extent in the VerticalAxisGroup

(untested, though)

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