On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM Knute Snortum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I need to control staff to staff spacing by system and I can do that (as
> the documentation states) by separating the breaks into their own voice and
> using the line-break-system-details of the NonMusicalPaperColumn. However,
> this is a mouthful:
>
> \once \override
> Score
> .NonMusicalPaperColumn
> .line-break-system-details
> = #'((Y-offset . 30)
> (alignment-distances . (15)))
>
> So I am trying to create a music function where I only need to pass the
> Y-offset and alignment-distances (I just need one), but the function isn't
> working. It doesn't throw an error, but it has no effect. I'm
> hoping someone can correct my error. Here is the code I'm using:
>
> %%% Start
> \version "2.24.4"
>
> staffStaffSpacing =
> #(define-music-function (off dist) (number? number?)
> #{
> \once \override
> Score
> .NonMusicalPaperColumn
> .line-break-system-details
> = #'((Y-offset . off)
> (alignment-distances . (dist)))
> #})
>
> rightHand = \relative {
> \repeat unfold 16 { c'1 }
> }
>
> leftHand = \relative {
> \clef bass
> \repeat unfold 16 { c1 }
> }
>
> forceBreaks = {
> s1*8 \break
> \staffStaffSpacing #30 #15
> s1*8
> }
>
> \score {
> \new PianoStaff <<
> \new Staff \rightHand
> \new Staff \leftHand
> \new Devnull \forceBreaks
> >>
> }
> %%% End
>
Hi Knute,
overrideLBSD =
#(define-music-function (y-offset distances) (number? list?)
#{
\overrideProperty
Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details.Y-offset #y-offset
\overrideProperty
Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details.alignment-distances
#distances
#})
Call \overrideLBSD #20 #'(32 32 32).
HTH.
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