Re: Chord Names set at different heights?

[Edward Sanford Sutton, III]

On Thursday March 18 2004 20:57, Walter Hofmeister wrote:
> On 3/18/04 11:23 AM, "Bertalan Fodor" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I think the question is to achieve something like this:
> >
> >
> >           G
> > C     F  -o- -o-  C
> > ------------------------
> > ----o-o--------------o--
> > ------------------o-----
> > o-o---------------------
> > ------------------------
> >
> > If you have a high note (or some lyrics for only some notes above the
> > staff) the whole line of chords is shifted up to be in one line, like
> > this:
> >
> > C     F   G       C
> >         hel-lo
> >        -o- -o-
> > ------------------------
> > ----o-o--------------o--
> > ------------------o-----
> > o-o---------------------
> > ------------------------
>
> Actually, I want them all in a line like example 2. If the notes are above
> the staff, more clearance is required so that the chord names do not
> collide with the notes. To accomplish this it is necessary to increase the
> height of the chord names. But if on another line the notes are not so high
> on the staff, the higher chord names will look odd because now there is a
> lot of clearance between the staff and the chord names.
>
>
>
> C       F  G       C
>           -o- -o-
> ---------------------------
> ------o-o------------------
> ------------------o-o------
> --o-o----------------------
> ---------------------------
>
> This is OK.
>
> C       F  G       C
>
>
> ---------------------------
> ---------o-----------------
> -----o-----o--------o------
> ---o---o------o---o--------
> -o--------------o----------
>
> This looks odd.
>
> My question is: is there a way so that the first example can get the extra
> clearance needed but also can the chord names in the second example be set
> lower or closer to the staff? I am assuming that both these settings are in
> the same .ly file.
>

Staff.minimumVerticalExtent (as Mats Bengtsson stated) should be the 
adjustment that you care to play with. LilyPond by default does the following 
like you want; Staff.minimumVerticalExtent lets you control how much space it 
makes for the chords to begin with.