Re: More vertical space between staves

[Jonathan Kulp]

Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> > Only problem is that there is too little vertical space between the
> > staves/lines. How do I increase that (and add more space at the top)? As
> > a purely academical question I was wondering why lilypond will give an
> > error warning even though the document is fine? This is the lilypond output:
>
> To get more space, add the following line to your \paper{} block.
>
> between-system-space = 6\cm
>
> (This is described in the Notation Reference section 4.4.2 Vertical spacing
> between systems)
>
> I'd also recommend adding
>
> indent = 0
>
> to your \paper{} block; I think it's much more appealing for this type of
> layout.

I was going to recommend the same thing.  Here's what I added to make it 
more to my taste as well:

\layout {
  \context {
    \Score
    \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
  }
}

This gets rid of the measure numbers.  So the whole \score block looks 
like this:

\score {
  <<
    \new FretBoards {
      \override FretBoard #'fret-diagram-details #'open-string = #" "
      \override FretBoard #'fret-diagram-details #'fret-count = #6
        \chordmode {
          \repeat unfold 20 { c''2 c''2 }
        }
    }
    \context Staff {
      \repeat unfold 5 {s1 s1 s1 s1 \break}
      \bar "|."
    }
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Score
      \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
    }
  }
}

> To get more space at the top, you could add some title block elements as
> " ", which won't show but will take up space.  For example, you could add
> (in your \header{} block):
>
>      title = " "
>      subtitle = " "
>      composer = " "
>      arranger = " "

Funny, I tried this (after Risto showed me how to use the same thing 
with my LyricExtender problem) and it didn't make any difference in the 
space at the top.  I don't mind the spacing as is, though.

This is a cool template.  Thanks guys,

Jon

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