Re: Spacing problems

[Neil Puttock]

On 5 March 2011 12:23, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:

> I did give the full detail in a previous mail, but a skeleton looks like
> this:
>
> \new Staff = "MainStaff" <<
>  \new Voice = "MainVoice" { SomeMusic
>   << {
>       OtherMusic
>     }
>     \new Staff = "Ossia" \with {
>       \remove "Time_signature_engraver"
>       alignAboveContext = #"MainStaff"
>       \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -3) % Sets the staff
> line spacing
>       fontSize = #-2
>     }
>     \new Voice = "Testing" {
>       Music
>     }
>     \new Lyrics \with {
>       alignBelowContext = "Ossia"
>     }
>     \lyricsto "Testing" { Words }
>   >>
>   MoreMusic
>   }
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "MainVoice" { \OtherWords }
>  >>
>
> So I think I've got brackets <<  >> including the simultaneous events, which
> includes the existing music, the new Ossia staff, the Ossia music and the
> Ossia lyrics.  So it appears to be right from what you've suggested, but I
> still can't place the lyrics properly without hundreds of warnings.

I've just looked at the full snippet, and the ossia lyrics are inside
`MainStaff'.

> See my reply to Carl, thanks.

It doesn't appear to have made it to the list.

Cheers,
Neil