Re: Vertical spacing for fixed y-offset of systems *calculated from top staff line*?

[Carl Sorensen]

On 5/26/11 4:09 PM, "Trevor Bača" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2011/5/25 Carl Sorensen <address@hidden>
>> On 5/25/11 4:27 PM, "Trevor Bača" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Is there any way to achieve the vertical layout of systems that I'm looking
>>>> for with modern versions of Lily?
>> 
>> I couldn't get your examples to compile, so I couldn't test them.
>> 
>> I think you want to set top-system-spacing and system-system-spacing with a
>> 'stretchability of 0, which will place the system at a fixed location,
>> regardless of the notes present.
> 
> 
> Hi Carl,
> 
> So I tried the following ...
> 
> %%% EX 3 %%%
> 
> \version "2.13.61"
> 
> \paper {
>    evenHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { " " }
>    indent = #0
>    oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { " " }
>    top-margin = 20\mm
>    system-system-spacing = #'(
>       (basic_distance . 0) (minimum_distance . 0) (padding . 0)
> (stretchability . 0))
>    top-system-spacing = #'(
>       (basic_distance . 0) (minimum_distance . 0) (padding . 0)
> (stretchability . 0))
> }
> 
> \new Staff {
> 
>    %%% PAGE 1 %%%%
> 
>    \overrideProperty #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
>    #'line-break-system-details #'((Y-offset . 0))
>    c'1 \pageBreak
> 
>    \overrideProperty #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
>    #'line-break-system-details #'((Y-offset . 0))
>    c''''1
> 
> }
> 
> %%% END EX 3 %%%
> 
> ... but the output appears to be the same as example 1. (Ie, the settings
> appear to have no effect.)
> 
> Is there perhaps a mistake in my top-system-spacing and system-system-spacing
> settings?
> 
> (And apologies for the miscompilation of exx 1 & 2; I just tried cutting and
> pasting from the thread on my end and they seem to compile ok, which is odd.)

Oh -- it's special space characters that break compliation.  Sometimes the
emails have 0xA0 instead of 0x20 for spaces, IIRC.  I'm sorry that I didn't
make it work properly.

padding needs to be negative to prevent the staves from changing places in
response to the notes etc.

\version "2.13.61"

\paper {
evenHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { " " }
indent = #0
oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \fill-line { " " }
top-margin = 20\mm
system-system-spacing = #'(
   (basic_distance . 24) (minimum_distance . 0) (padding . -10)
(stretchability . 0))
top-system-spacing = #'(
   (basic_distance . 24) (minimum_distance . 0) (padding . -10)
(stretchability . 0))
}

\new Staff {

%%% PAGE 1 %%%%

%\overrideProperty #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
%#'line-break-system-details #'((Y-offset . 0))
c'1 \pageBreak

%\overrideProperty #"Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
%#'line-break-system-details #'((Y-offset . 0))
c''''1

}


As I checked this out, the staff position was fixed on both pages.

HTH,

Carl