Re: How to bring two staves close enough together to allow for overprint?

[Trevor Bača]

On 4/2/07, Maximilian Albert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trevor Bača schrieb:
>
> > In the following snippet I want the two staves to be exactly 5 staff
> > spaces apart even though this will cause the g'4 in the bass to
> > overprint the c'4 in the treble. But it doesn't work.
>
> In your example, you use a *pair* of two numbers to specify the vertical
> positions because there is a dot in between the numbers:
>
>   (0 . 5)
>
> This seems to make sense because you want to position _two_ staves
> relative to each other. However, the syntax also makes sense with three
> or more staves, which is why lilypond interprets the given argument as a
> *list*. Therefore if you remove the dot and write the argument as a
> *list* of two objects, like this:
>
>   (0 5)
>
> then it works like a charm.

D'oh!

Perfect. Thanks, Max!

At-home example:

%%% BEGIN %%%

\version "2.11.20"

\new GrandStaff <<
  \new Staff { c'4 }
  \new Staff {
     \clef bass
     \overrideProperty "Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn"
     #'line-break-system-details #'((alignment-offsets . (0 -5)))
     g'4
  }
> >

%%% END %%%


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