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Scaling vertical spacing [0.39286]

Scaling vertical spacing

To increase or decrease the vertical spacing in general (rather than the spacing of … …you can multiply all of the default flexible vertical spacing properties by a given scaling factor. This …

…shows how to increase or decrease the overall vertical spacing % (of staves, systems, lyrics, chord names, etc.) … …in 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 { \…

Vertical brace spanning several lyrics lines [0.28571]

Vertical brace spanning several lyrics lines

This example shows a trick to insert a vertical brace when going from several stanzas into a …

…the baseline of the text, but % to the vertical center leftbrace = \set stanza = \markup { \hspace #1 \translate …

How to bottom-align texts with different vertical extents [0.25000]

How to bottom-align texts with different vertical extents

Some letters imply smaller vertical extents than the others; if you have, below your staff, two markups with different vertical extents (e.g. one text with letters t,…

Adjusting vertical positioning of lyric hyphens [0.25000]

Adjusting vertical positioning of lyric hyphens

…a simple line with variable length. Its standard vertical position doesn't always fit the proportions of … …may be too low. You can adjust the vertical positioning of the hyphens manually. To get a …

Vertical spacing of footnotes [0.25000]

Vertical spacing of footnotes

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