Re: reduce spacing between chord names and staff?

[Paul Scott]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> Paul Scott wrote:
>
> > \score {
> >    <<
> >    \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-0 . 1)
> >    \context ChordNames \chords{ a b c d }
> >    \context Staff \notes{ a'4 b' c' d' }
> >    >>
> > }
> >
> > Is this what is intended?  Where is this feature of \set described?
>
>
> Haven't you asked almost the same question before?

Not intentionally.  You may have actually answered it in one of our 
recent threads but if so I didn't get the full meaning at that time.  So 
far I have found examples of the context syntax in the manual but not a 
clear explanation of how it works.  I probably should have done the 
experimenting I just did before this.

> \set Staff.xxx = xxx sets a property value in the current
> Staff context. 

Where those properties were stored was not clear until now.

> If there is no such context, LilyPond has to
> create one to be able to do the setting. Two lines later, you
> create a new Staff context.
> You have to do the setting within the context you want to affect:
> \score {
>    <<
>    \context ChordNames \chords{ a b c d }
>    \context Staff \notes{
>       \set Staff.minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-0 . 1)
>       a'4 b' c' d' }
>    >>
> }
>
> In recent development versions, you also have the following convenient
> syntax:
>
> \score {
>    <<
>    \context ChordNames \chords{ a b c d }
>    \context Staff \notes \with { minimumVerticalExtent = #'(-0 . 1) }
>      { a'4 b' c' d' }
>    >>
> }

Thanks.  It's a big manual and so far I hadn't seen a clear enough 
example of the syntax for '\with'.  Of course now when I search for 
'\with' in the manual I find more.

Thanks for your patience,

Paul