Re: how to get lilypond to ignore text when creating spaces

[dave k]

Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengtsson <at> ee.kth.se> writes:

> 
> LilyPond will ignore the extra-offset, but it will still move the 
> chords according to the normal position of the text. If you don't want 
> that, you can specify a fixed vertical extent
> of the Staff, see the section on Vertical Spacing and follow the link 
> at the bottom of the page to the VerticalAlignment object
> for more information.
> 
>    /Mats

I thought the vertical spacing parameters were for adjusting staves. I don't
really care where the staves are, I just need Lilypond to put symbols without
regard to the position of that markup.