Re: Custom / Fine tuning vertical space between piano staff lines

[Simon Albrecht]

On 17.06.2016 02:28, Harald Christiansen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to add some supplemental white space between piano staff lines 
> (to avoid a crowded look and near clashes).
>
> I looked long and hard at TFM _and_ whatever snippets I could find, 
> but unfortunately I am still none the wiser :|
>
> The only thing that I found (and made sense to me) was the global page 
> settings, but I don't want to change the global parameters, only to 
> fine tune and add some vertical space between selected piano staff rows.

It’s intentional that you can normally only change global behaviour, to 
ensure a consistent spacing. The only proper possibility (apart from 
adding invisible objects, which would be really nasty and hard to 
maintain) seems using explicit staff and system positioning 
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/explicit-staff-and-system-positioning>.

HTH, Simon