Re: Text markup: vspace with negative number

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hi Jethro,

you can use \override #'(baseline-skip . 0) \center-column {} to change 
the spacing.

HTH Jan-Peter

Am 15.08.2013 16:39, schrieb Jethro Van Thuyne:
> 'm trying to reduce the line width in a custom header template,
> having several lines combined in \center-column. I tried using
> the \vspace command, which seems the only thing in the docs
> slightly related to line height, but it doesn't seem to handle
> negative numbers.
>
> bookTitleMarkup = \markup
>   {
>   \fill-line
>     {       \center-column
>       {         \fontsize #4.5 \fromproperty #'header:title
>       \fontsize #-3 \fromproperty #'header:copyMusic
>       \vspace #-2
>       \fontsize #-3 \fromproperty #'header:copyLyric
>       }       }     }
> Any way to set the line height to a smaller number than the
> default value in \center-column?