Re: System spacing

[Mats Bengtsson]

By default, LilyPond should not reserve any space for a lyrics line
if there is no lyrics on that particular score line, so I expected
your example to work exactly as you desire. (The exception to what
I said is the first score line, where you can read more for example
in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2005-08/msg00085.html).

  /Mats

Quoting Ruth Ivimey-Cook <address@hidden>:

> Folks,
>
> I have a score in which the first two systems each have 3 verses (lines of
> text) underneath, and the next three systems are the chorus and have only one
> line. Each system is one line of music.
>
> I saw that there is some control over the inter-system spacing, but it is not
> clear to me how to modify the spacing of the chorus such that it the chorus
> lines only take up the space required, rather than the same space that the
> verses do...
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ruth
>
>
>
>
> The outer level of the .ly file is as follows. I can post more if needed:
>
> \score {
> %\midi { \tempo 4=72 }
> <<
>        \context Voice = mel {
>                \repeat volta 3 {
>                        \verseMusic  \bar "" \break
>                        \chorusMusic
>                }
>        }
>        \lyricsto mel \new Lyrics { \verseOne  \chorusText }
>        \lyricsto mel \new Lyrics \verseTwo
>        \lyricsto mel \new Lyrics \verseThree
>
> > >
>
>
>
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