Re: move lyrics closer

[Trevor Daniels]

Eluze

There's a paragraph in section 5.5.1 which may (nor may not!) help. 
It says:

"All graphical objects have a reference point, a horizontal extent 
and a vertical extent. The horizontal extent is a pair of numbers 
giving the displacements from the reference point of the left and 
right edges, displacements to the left being negative. The vertical 
extent is a pair of numbers giving the displacement from the 
reference point to the bottom and top edges, displacements down 
being negative."

Trevor

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From: "-Eluze" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: move lyrics closer



in
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page.html#Vertical%20spacing%20inside%20a%20system
you can read:
Normally staves are stacked vertically. To make staves maintain a 
distance,
their vertical
size is padded. This is done with the property minimum-Y-extent. 
When
applied to a Section
“VerticalAxisGroup” in Internals Reference, it controls the size of 
a
horizontal line, such as a
staff or a line of lyrics. minimum-Y-extent takes a pair of numbers, 
so if
you want to make it
smaller than its default #'(-4 . 4) then you could set
\override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent = #'(-3 . 3)
This sets the vertical size of the current staff to 3 staff spaces 
on either
side of the center staff
line. The value (-3 . 3) is interpreted as an interval, where the 
center
line is the 0, so the first
number is generally negative. The numbers need not match; for 
example, the
staff can be made
larger at the bottom by setting it to (-6 . 4).

when i read this i was rather confused:

-  *it controls the size of a horizontal line* - i thought the topic 
was
*vertical lines*!
-  *minimum-Y-extent takes a pair of numbers* - of course, but what 
does the
1st number stand for and whatfor is the 2nd?
- *The value (-3 . 3) is interpreted as an interval, where the 
center line
is the 0, so the first
number is generally negative.* - yes, but why!? or is that a general 
rule?!
- *the staff can be made larger at the bottom by setting it to (-6 . 
4)* -
because usually it is negative: if i choose a smaller number (-6) it 
gets
larger!

sorry if this sounds dismal, but after reading this i really did not 
know
how to use the numbers!


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