Re: Space between staffs of a PianoStaff

[Michael David Crawford]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Unless you have any cross-stave beams or slurs, the easiest is to just 
> replace PianoStaff by GrandStaff. Actually, the only reason
> whatsoever to use a PianoStaff is when you have such cross-stave
> features. If you really want to stick to the PianoStaff, the spacing
> can be set using:
> \layout{
>  \context{
>    \PianoStaff
>    \override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance = #8
>  }
> }

Is forced-distance still present in 2.11.18?  When I try to do this I get:

warning: cannot find property type-check for `forced-distance' 
(backend-type?).  perhaps a typing error?
warning: doing assignment anyway

and it has no effect.

Searching for forced-distance in Google turned up hits in the 2.11 doc, 
but the pages are no longer there.

I also saw various alternative ways to do it in the doc for earlier 
versions of Lilypond, but none of them would work either.

I'll try changing it to GrandStaff to see if that helps.

Michael David Crawford
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