Re: staff-space doesn't seem to work as documented

[Ralph Palmer]

Greetings, Phil -

Looks like you're trying too hard. The following compiled nicely:
\new Staff \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'1.5
                                                             { c'' c'' c'' c'' }

Notice : 1) no added {} ; and 2) no "\with". I just used "\override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #1.5

Ralph

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:

In the PDF documentation for 2.12.3 and the online documentation for 2.13.16 it gives the syntax for reducing staff spacing as:

\override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #1.5

If I use this syntax, I get an error:

error: syntax error, unexpected '{'
\new Staff \with {\override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'1.5}
                                                             { c'' c'' c'' c'' }


If I use a syntax with parentheses (guessed by trial and error):

\override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #'( . 1.5)

I compiles and runs successfully.

Code snippets are available if required.

Is this a bug in the documentation?

--
Phil Holmes




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