Re: Text markup: vspace with negative number

[David Kastrup]

Jethro Van Thuyne <address@hidden> writes:

> I'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?

You could try telling us the version of LilyPond you are using.  With
the current development version, this moves the third field right into
the first one.  So you are obviously using something else.

-- 
David Kastrup