Re: inter staff spacing

[Alexander Kobel]

Hugh Myers wrote:
> Given:
>
> \version "2.13.7"
> [...]
> How do I control the distance between the staff and the tab staff.
> [...] I've played around with \override Staff.VerticalAxisGroup
> #'minimum-Y-extent to no avail


Hi, Hugh,

AFAICS, the #'minimum-Y-extent does not work anymore for staves in 
2.13.x; instead, try out the #'*-next-staff-spacing properties.  They 
are mainly undocumented so far, AFAIK, but you can find some details in 
the Internals Reference for VerticalAxisGroup (2.13), and search for 
"vertical spacing" in the archives of lilypond-devel and lilypond-user 
for the past few months (especially the mails by Joe Neeman, who wrote 
the new vertical spacing algorithm).


Cheers,
Alexander