Re: header material too close to staff

[David Zelinsky]

Thank you!  I could have sworn I tried almost exactly that and got
errors.  But this does work!

And thanks for the amazingly quick response!

-David


"Hwaen Ch'uqi" <hwaenchuqi@gmail.com> writes:

> Greetings David,
>
> You can invoke the \column and \vspace commands inside markup, like this:
>
> \header {
>   piece = \markup \column {
>     "blah blah"
>     \vspace #2
>   }
> }
>
> hth,
>
> Hwaen Ch'uqi
>
>
> On 2/1/21, David Zelinsky <dzpost@dedekind.net> wrote:
>> Is there a way to put some space between the header material and the
>> first staff?  None of my searching as produced anything relevant.
>>
>> Here's an example:
>>
>> -------------
>>
>> \version "2.20.0"
>> \include "english.ly"
>>
>> \score {
>>   {
>>     c''' c''' c''' c'''
>>   }
>> }
>> \header {
>>   piece = "blah blah blah blah blah blah"
>> }
>>
>> -------------
>>
>>
>>
>>