Re: Increasing spacing between staves

[Ben]

On 11/10/2017 12:49 PM, David Sumbler wrote:

Is there some way of increasing or specifying the space between the 2
staves of a piano staff at a particular point in a score?

The piece I am setting has a lot of cross-staff beams, and sometimes
Lilypond does not allow enough space between the staves for a decent-
looking beam.  In those cases I would like to force a greater space
between the 2 staves just for that particular printed line of music.

I do not wish to alter the minimum staff spacing globally.  But the
particular points where extra spacing is needed may not occur at the
beginning of a line, and of course the spacing of the whole line must
be changed.

Can this be done?

David

If you don't want to set it up globally with \new Staff, you can still of course use the same override as needed throughout the piece, etc.
The padding is the main value you can change...
(see attached)

\version "2.19.80"
% -this was just an example from the documentation


\new PianoStaff \with {
    \override StaffGrouper.staff-staff-spacing = #'(
                            (basic-distance . 0)
                            (padding . 8))
  }
  <<
    \new Staff {
      g''2 c'' c'' a''
    }
    \new Staff {
      \clef bass e2 f c e
    }
  >>

 
 

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