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Re: verticalExtent and minimumVerticalExtent
From: |
Warren Stickney |
Subject: |
Re: verticalExtent and minimumVerticalExtent |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:29:41 +1300 |
Thank you for this Bert, much appreciated.
Now finally I feel I have full control over lyrics placement and inter staff
spacing.
I sing tenor you see, so I look at this staff rather a lot.
Warren Stickney
Wellington,
New Zealand
Lily 2.0.1
Cygwin
Replying to your:
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:07:34 +0100
> From: "Fodor Bertalan" <address@hidden>
> Subject: verticalExtent and minimumVerticalExtent
> To: <address@hidden>
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>
> I founded some important but not very well documented feature. It is
> important when you use G_8 clef with lyrics, because using the same
> minimumVerticalExtent, the lyrics won't be in the same distance from the
> staff, as with a G or F clef (it is because the 8 in the clef).
>
> If you want to set the vertical extent of a staff independently of the
> staff's contents you can use the property verticalExtent but it is limited
> to values set by minimumVerticalExtent, unless the latter is set to ##f.
>
> So to have any vertical extent of your choice you should write:
>
> \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = ##f
> \set Staff.verticalExtent = #'(-4 . 6)
>
>
> Bert