Re: Vertical Spacing revisited

[Mats Bengtsson]

Lots have happened since version 2.3.11, especially when it comes to
the page layout, so I definitely recommend to upgrade before you spend
too much effort on tuning the performance of 2.3.11.

Regarding your earlier questions on verticalExtent, you should
visualize each context (Staff or Lyrics) in a rectangular box.
The vertical extents of that box are determined by the verticalExtent,
minimumVerticalExtent and extraVerticalExtent properties but also by
by the contents of the context. For example, if you have a very high
note with several ledger lines, it will increase the upper extent of the
box (unless you have hard coded the extent using verticalExtent, which
normally is a bad idea). The two numbers of the properties is just the
vertical coordinate of the lower and upper bounds, relative to the
center of the Staff or the base line of the lyrics, respectively.

These *VerticalExtent properties are mainly useful to adjust the
spacing between different staves of a score or between the staves
and the lyrics. If you want to adjust the spacing between the full
score lines, you should use the betweensystemspace and/or
betweensystempadding properties (they used to be called something
completely different in version 2.2 and earlier).

   /Mats

Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> I finished that SATB score I was keying in last week when I said I had
> trouble getting the vertical spacing to work correctly, and now I see
> the problem.  It looks like Lilypond (2.3.11) is dividing total systems
> by number of pages to try to force an equal number of systems per
> page... so when I had four systems (combined treble + bass clefs) it put
> two on each page; now that I have six it puts three on each page.
>
> How can I change this behavior so it fits the maximum possible (per my
> Staff.verticalExtent values) on the first and subsequent pages, and just
> leaves the last page blank after the last line of music?
>
> I downloaded 2.3.22 last night, but I was getting all kinds of errors
> relating to pcm files.  Probably my own mistake installing it, but
> that's a subject for another email.
>
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> Cheyenne, WY
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