Re: Staff: vertical spacing, reduce chord name distance

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Daniel Johnson <address@hidden>:

> Thomas Scharkowski wrote:
> > IIRC in previous versions I could reduce the distance between a 
> > staff and chord symbols by this command:
> >
> > \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-4 . 1)
> >
> > In 2.8.1 this is:
> > \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-4 . 1)
> >
> > or did I get something wrong?
> > Reducing the space this way dos not work here, increasing does work.
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Thomas
> > Windows XP
> You can see what the required code is here; you can also see a bug 
> related to it:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-lilypond%40gnu.org/msg07067.html
>
> In short, you need to set minimum-Y-extent to false, and then set 
> Y-extent to an absolute value instead.  But you may encounter 
> stem-length errors on beamed notes.  As far as I can tell, this 
> problem has not yet been addressed, even in CVS.  The bug was 
> introduced when the VerticalAxisGroup interface was added to the 
> Staff context about midway through the 2.7 development cycle.

If you try the example in 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2006-04/msg00745.html
you will realize why this "solution" almost never is what you want. Are 
you sure that the reason that you didn't see any difference in the 
example starting this thread was that something in the stave (the G 
clef or a high note or a text script or ...) was placed so high
above the stave that it was more limiting than the minimum-Y-extent
setting?

  /Mats