Re: staff spacing

[Mats Bengtsson]

When you have a score line with empty lyrics, it is removed completely
meaning that it doesn't occupy any space.

If you want empty lyrics lines to still occupy some space, try
\score{
  ...
  \paper{
    ...
    \translator{
      \LyricsVoiceContext
      \remove "Hara_kiri_engraver"
    }
  }
}

Also, see the answer to the related question at
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-11/msg00087.html
(popular question today).


   /Mats

Russ Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm setting the full score for the first movement of Bach's St.
> Matthew Passion which has about 27 staves per page.  I can squeeze
> them all onto a single A4 page by scaling down to the 11 pt size,
> moving a few dynamic marks, and increasing the textsize parameter.
>
> When the vocal parts are resting, the system crunches down to a much
> smaller size (no lyrics) which I'd like to avoid.  What I'd really
> like is to fix the spacing of the staves on all pages to be the same,
> ideally computed based on the largest spacing needed on any page.
> Is it possible to do something like this?  I think it makes the
> music much easier to follow from page to page.
>
> I've tried setting the spacing of an individual manually using:
>
>   \property Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-3 . 5)
>
> or something similar, but this seems to expand the staff too much on
> the pages with lyrics (where space is tight) and not enough on the
> pages without lyrics.  Is there another setting that controls the
> inter-staff spacing when lyrics are involved?  If I can just set the
> spacing myself it should work with some trial and error.  If I could
> get lilypond to compute the spacing and keep it the same for all
> pages that would be even better.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russ
>
>
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