Re: inter-staff distance / page header

[Tom Cloyd]

Part of the problem I've been having is what appears to be a term confusion.

In the Music_glossary.pdf I read:

1.282 staff

A staff (plural: staves) is a series of (normally five) horizontal lines upon and between which the musical notes are written, thus indicating (in connection with a Section 1.55 [clef], page 14) their pitch. Staves for Section 1.226 [percussion], page 57 instruments may have fewer lines.

and

1.297 system

The collection of staves (staff ), two or more, as used for writing down of keyboard, chamber,
choral, or orchestral music.

So, I clearly have been wanting to increase distance between my staves. Yet, look for THAT took me to the wrong places in the notation manual. What ultimately worked was this:

"between-system-spacing #'padding = #10 % controls spacing between staves"

(the added comment is mine)

This is completely misleading. The statement doesn't affect between-system spacing, but WITHIN-system spacing.

This looks like a clear mis-nomer to me. Am I misunderstanding something here?

Tom

On 04/03/2010 01:56 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote:

My mistake. The problem isn't "collisions". It's inter-staff distance, which I'm not finding a way to increase. Can you help me do that?

Thanks!

Tom

On 04/03/2010 12:47 AM, James Bailey wrote:

It may not help much, but I've just compiled the file with 2.13.17 and had no collisions to speak of. For printing header information on every page, see section 3 of the notation reference. I even think that odd/even page header may work in the development version, although I'm not sure.

On 03.04.2010, at 08:34, Tom Cloyd wrote:

Have just installed developmental ver.  "2.13.16" and run convert-ly on all my scores.

I got this CLI message when running the conversion:

"Not smart enough to convert vertical spacing has been changed; minimum-Y-extent is obsolete.
Please refer to the manual for details, and update manually.2.13.16 "

Not very helpful, at least not to me, because I don't know how to fix the problem.

All my staves are now vertically crowded. I've tried a number of things to fix it - and now my head is completely muddled.

I'm working out of the Notation manual section "4.1.2 Page formatting" ...and nothing has worked. Hasn't had any effect at all, in fact. I'm guessing I'm putting stuff in the wrong place. I'm running out of time now.

My code is here:

http://pastie.org/901405

It's only 5 lines of music, but they crowd into each other unacceptably. It's free of any of my failed change attempts.

So, two questions:

1. How can I get space between the staves?

2. Unrelated question: on scores (they're all for a single instrument), is there yet any way to get a score title printed on every page? Right now I'm using the "instrument = "Classical Guitar 100329" " line. If this were not printed on page one, I could just put the title and version date there, but it IS, so that's no solution. My solution is a kludge, and it's OK, but is there a better way?

Thanks for any help.

Tom



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