Re: note spacing

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-10-20 6:50 pm, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote:
> A setting of a treble (Hours-treble) 12 measures are spread over three 
> lines
> - 4 measures per line.
>
> When the bass is added (Hours with bass) the 12 measures are compressed 
> into
> two lines.

My hunch is that the beamed notes overlapping the bar lines in the lower 
staff are causing LilyPond to prefer two systems to three, as such a 
layout prevents any beamed notes from breaking across lines.

Add "\paper { system-count = #3 }" or an explicit \break here or there 
to force things into the layout you need.


-- Aaron Hill