How do you increase the distance between staves in Lilypond?

Question

I would like there to be more vertical space between the staves.

I am totally lost on this so I didn't know what to try. Sorry.

Answer 1

Look here for documentation on this. The property your are interested in is system-system-spacing. My \paper block looks like this (adjust to taste):

\paper {
  system-system-spacing =
    #'((basic-distance . 8) 
       (minimum-distance . 4)
       (padding . 2)
       (stretchability . 60)) % defaults: 12, 8, 1, 60
}

Answer 2

Please provide a code snippet so that we can better help you. It's difficult to answer a question when little details about desired outcome nor any code is provided.

In Lilypond, the distance between staves can be adjusted by setting the between-system-space property. This property determines the amount of space between staves within a system, as well as the amount of space between systems.