The LilyPond Snippet Repository ♪♫

Automatically adjusting lyric placement for natural note spacing

This snippet gets rid of uglinesses in note spacing caused by lyrics. By default, LilyPond always puts … …completely removes the presence of lyrics in note spacing so that it is natural according to the note lengths, and uses a spacing algorithm that shifts lyrics automatically in order to …

…This snippet gets rid of uglinesses in note spacing caused by lyrics. % By default, LilyPond always puts … …for each of the words. % Solving the lyric spacing problem means finding an acceptable solution % of minimal … …minimum-space property. % % The algorithm to solve the lyric spacing problem uses dynamic programming % and runs in linear …

Vocal music Spacing devel

Increasing spacing between staves

Vertical spacing is automatically set so that the layout of … …you may find that you can get the spacing you want with changes to just one or …

…Item?id=12 %here starts the snippet: \paper { % spacing variables may be changed individually: system-system-spacing.padding = #8 % …

Spacing Staff notation Tweaks and overrides Paper and layout

Setting minimum width (spacing) for one particular measure

By default, LilyPond chooses the horizontal spacing and stretching so that the whole score fits … …All other measures will still keep their default spacing, only this one measure will be stretched a …

Spacing Tweaks and overrides

Adjusting the spacing of full measure notes

…occupy a complete measure are given some extra spacing from the preceding bar line. This can be … …completely. Positive numbers greater than 1 increase the spacing.

Rhythms Spacing Tweaks and overrides

Vertical spacing of footnotes

…padding and not baseline-to-baseline distances) is uneven vertical spacing if some footnote text doesn't contain both … …like letter ‘p’). This snippet fixes the vertical spacing of footnotes. It defines a new command \Footnote …

Editorial annotations Text Paper and layout Spacing

Spacing out percent repeats with hidden notes

If you don't like the spacing used for percent repeats, you can enlarge the …

Repeats Spacing Symbols and glyphs workaround

Automatic spacing behavior

…head positions into account to correctly handle optical spacing. This feature is what makes LilyPond-engraved scores so …

Spacing Automatic notation Staff notation really cool

Scaling vertical spacing

To increase or decrease the vertical spacing in general (rather than the spacing of just … …used as the scaling factors for (1) within-system spacing and (2) page layout (outside-system) spacing.

…how to increase or decrease the overall vertical spacing % (of staves, systems, lyrics, chord names, etc.) by … …the layout block below to scale % flexible vertical spacing grob properties. Change its value to change the % vertical spacing within systems. gmult = #1.5 \layout { \context { \Score { \…

Proportional spacing

Spacing Specific notation

Adjusting lyrics vertical spacing

Vocal music Spacing Text Tweaks and overrides workaround docs