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<h3 class="subsection">5.4.4 Staff symbol properties</h3>
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<p>The vertical position of staff lines and the number of staff lines
can be defined at the same time. As the following example shows,
note positions are not influenced by the staff line positions.
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<p><b>Note:</b> The <code>'line-positions</code> property overrides the
<code>'line-count</code> property. The number of staff lines is
implicitly defined by the number of elements in the list of values
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<blockquote><pre class="verbatim">\new Staff \with {
\override StaffSymbol #'line-positions = #'(7 3 0 -4 -6 -7)
}
{ a4 e' f b | d1 }
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<p>The width of a staff can be modified. The units are staff
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